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As a True Crime watcher, I sometimes worry that I've desensitized myself somewhat. But then this episode came along. It haunts me, the evil and this poor man whose torture still manifests in him not only emotionally, but physically. He is mentally destroyed and emaciated to this day, decades later. The abuse he and his brother suffered by his drugged out mother's lesbian lover is something I cannot get over. Starved, beaten, locked away in a dark closet and not allowed to go to school. This poor man's face is forever burned into my memory. As a mother myself, I wanted to reach thru the screen and hug and feed this grown man and heal him. It is haunting that I can't...that nobody can. I hope beyond hope that he can someday find peace and relax in the arms of God.

This series is so bad. None of these people even seem like real human beings. Everyone is just literally screwing everyone else, either literally or figuratively. The dialogue is so incredibly superficial and contrived. Nicole Kidman looks like a freaking mannequin. Maybe the super-rich ARE reptilians! Because the way these people are portrayed is so odd. Dakota Fanning is way better than this, super disappointed in her even being a part of this train wreck. What kind of person forgives their fiancée for cheating on their wedding weekend. It's all so sick and so unbelievable. And what's with the stupid line dancing intro? Just AWFUL.

I was alone and browsing for a movie to watch. Stumbled across this one and set out to casually watch a basic scary movie, with no clue of what I was about to experience. I barely moved the entire movie, and sat in stunned silence for 20 minutes after the credits started rolling, and hardly slept that night. I was petrified.

The absolute commitment that Toni Collette gave to this role as Annie is beyond description. She grabbed me and held me, and I'm not being hyperbolic. She found the deepest pain and distress inside herself that I've ever seen portrayed on screen. Her beautiful FACE revealed ugly and tragic feelings that words could never. She played mental illness and pain as real and as raw as I've ever seen it. Ever.

Hereditary has officially surpassed The Shining and The Exorcist as MY scariest and most disturbing movie of all time. And it's not even close.