Hereditary (2018)

The 2018 horror film 'Hereditary' is an engrossing dive into the story of a family whose life turns into a nightmare under the weight of recent tragedies. For Annie Graham, the loss of her mother, Ellen, remains a complicated and devastating affair. As her family, husband Steve, and two kids, Peter and Charlie, grieve the fresh loss, a series of strange and eerie happenings begin.. Hereditary is a 2018 American supernatural psychological horror film [3] written and directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, the film follows Annie Graham, a grieving miniature artist who uncovers disturbing secrets about her recently deceased mother.

The short answer to this question is that Hereditary was written entirely as a work of fiction by Ari Aster and is, therefore, not based on a true story. However, like many of the best works of the horror genre, Aster included a handful of narrative and thematic facets that indeed relate to real life, or at least to the occultist lore of history.. How Do 'Hereditary's Themes Connect To the Occult? The focus of Hereditary is the supernatural fall-out and its devastating impact on the Graham family following the death of the family matriarch.