Hereditary

Movie • 2018 • Horror  

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This movie contains 67 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
The death is not shown on screen. The camera briefly shows the aftermath (not bloody, just a small furry stillness) but if you're not paying attention you could easily miss what it's showing you.
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Anonymous
There are no horses in the movie.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Logan Plonski
A pigeon flies into a window, and a character cuts off the pigeon's head with a pair of scissors.
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cherry
a pigeon is decapitated, but it had already passed away after hitting a window
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Seenit
A dead pigeon, it’s head is removed with scissors
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eyesinthehills
No cats are ever seen or mentioned in the movie.
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Cassiman
The family dog is killed
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Anonymous
No spiders, but lots of large ants.
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Anonymous
Lots of ants, also loud fly swarms.
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heartshapedguitar
i wouldn’t say abandoned but there’s a lot of tension and parental issues in general between peter and annie
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Egan
We watch a character hysterically explain what she's been through during the film, and another character ignores her emotional pleas and clearly blames her.
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maulidon
Yes, by several people, though the signs are subtle and extremely easy to miss if you don't know they're there. Random stangers smile at the children as if they know them, very quiet footsteps are heard in the house before the family actually enters, the breath of an unknown person is visible outside the house at night, and in a brief night shot of the house towards the end, multiple people are standing outside the house.
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danikaviolet
one child is implied to have been abused by the grandmother, and the other child is emotionally abused by the mother. there is also a description of a mother attempting to murder both of her children but it is not shown, only talked about.
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danikaviolet
there is a description of a mother attempting to murder her two children but it is never shown. there are also loud screaming fights shown between mother and son as well as husband and wife.
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KamiSteele
It's a major theme of the movie, to the point where one potential interpretation of the title refers to the 'hereditary' nature of dysfunctional families. The film plays heavily into the specific trigger of becoming like your abusers.
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Anonymous
marijuana is smoked out of two seperate bongs and a spoon-style hand pipe
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jaidybug03
Several teens are seen drinking alcohol at a party
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slug
a character very gruesomely slices at their own neck with what looks like piano wire.
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Anonymous
Not exactly squashed but one character's head gets severely mutilated by an accident involving a utility pole and another character smashes his head on a desk repeatedly.
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Anonymous
yes. once someone's arm is engulfed in flame, another time someone's entire body
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danikaviolet
there's not exactly eye mutilation but there is a scene in which a character is possesed and his eye is breifly shown very bloodshot and as if it's about ti pop out.
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KamiSteele
There is a shot of a child's rotting decapitated head sitting in the middle of the road, covered in swarming ants. We also see a rotting corpse hidden in an attic. One character decapitates themselves using a piano wire. A mummified severed head is used as part of a statue.
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Ivylover28
This is an extremely gory film. I would avoid it at all costs if you're squeamish.
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Spoilers!

Actually🤓 no, but Charlie doesn't die due to trouble breathing, she's severely allergic to nuts, accidentally eats some, goes into anaphylactic shock and then on the way to the hospital, dies in a freak accident.
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Maedon
A character has an allergy attack causing their throat to close. It starts small and gets really bad.
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danikaviolet
a character breaks his nose
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KendalleAubra
Psychologically, yes
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SpearowDee
If a head counts.
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Anonymous
Not specifically the teeth, but a character's mouth gets bloodied up pretty badly after taking a beating.
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danikaviolet
yes, but the character is possesed and revived as a new person right afterwards.
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CMster
Decapitation is central to the movie. It happens by accident toward the beginning, and a character dies by suicide decapitating herself.

Also an animal is decapitated
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Anonymous
A character has a seizure and injures their face on a desk - it is not a medical seizure, but is rather a coercive supernatural event. However, other characters in the scene believe it to be a seizure
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dav2392
A character appears to be floating but also seems to be getting their neck cut by a rope or wire as they are in the air.
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Anonymous
short shot of a girl’s butt shown from teenage boys persepctive
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danikaviolet
there is a graphic depiction of a child's death as well as multiple of the dead body, including a scene of a mother finding her child's body. there is also another character who mentions her son and grandson's deaths but those arent shown.
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Everyman
SPOILERS: One character asks another to set fire to an artifact which they believe will save the family. The second character refuses, and the first burns the artifact, inadvertently killing the other.
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QuietWyatt
Non-human animals? Yes. Non-human characters? No. There is only one non-human *character* in the movie, and he most certainly lives.
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MeteorMeadow
A child's drawing is described in this way.
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Anonymous
a grandmother dies naturally in the beginning and it isn't shown, only her funeral. both parents die in brutal fashion
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Cherii
Charlies sketchbook is destroyed in a fire
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Anonymous
There are, but surprisingly only very few. Most startling things were seeing a character getting startled by the soft clicking sound. These didn't even feel like they were meant to be junpscares but many people in the theatre startled the first couple times.
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QuietWyatt
Annie's dioramas are full of them.
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Anonymous
Very briefly a clown is shown in one of the miniature sets that the mother makes.
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Are there razors?
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RosClark
Possession is a central theme of the film as a demon attempts to find a suitable vessel. Several characters are compelled to act in bizarre ways during fits of possession before one finally becomes permanent host to the entity
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danikaviolet
yes there are apparitions as well as communication with ghosts via seances. there are also evil demonic spirits
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Breanna
A character drools for a good part of the movie. About 4 minutes worth.
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Logan Plonski
No vomit is shown, but a couple of characters gag after seeing something disturbing.
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johnny
You can hear the child’s head be decapitated in a thud, a character saws their head off and you can hear the sawing and their body drop to the floor.
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Cassiman
After Paimon possesses Peter, he is referred to as Charlie, who is the girl he used to possess.
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IndigoBlue14
Annie destroys her artwork she's spent months on.
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Logan Plonski
There is a character who died of cancer before the beginning of the movie, and it's briefly talked about.
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Anonymous
No, but a miniature figure is made depicting a hospital/hospice room.
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sickb0y
One of the characters neglect and have a distaste for their child, who is implied to have autism or another learning disability.
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sapphicswords
A character (who dies in the beginning of the film and is only shown in photos) is diagnosed with DID and had some abusive tendencies. Given the context of the film however, it’s very likely that this character was possessed and never actually had the disorder.
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moonpie91
And how! The main indicator of Charlie's presence is her tic of clicking her tongue. It is repetitive and agonizingly grating.
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schnazzleberry
When Peter is with his friends under the bleachers, he has an anxiety attack
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mstryke
The grandmother is said to have D.I.D. - though we never meet the character so it’s impossible to know if that is correct. She’s also the leader of a cult so that’s not great.
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QuietWyatt
Paimon has body dysphoria so bad that he plots to jump from a female body to a male one.
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davida
A central AFAB character shares their body and spirit with a male demonic force. This character wears baggy oversized clothes in order to hide their figure is implied to have conflict over their gender and takes on a male form throughout the course of the film. Whether this is their partly own feelings or exclusively that of the male demon is left unstated.
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Everyman
One character discusses almost committing self-immolation in their sleep, but does not go through with it. This same character later tries to burn a haunted artifact, which they believe will kill them but spare their family, but again this does not happen.
Also, it's somewhat unclear if this was the intention, but a character does at one point jump from a window to escape a monster.
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danikaviolet
there is a very graphic depiction of a suicide by decapitation. also someone jumps out of a window and falls to their death. there is also mention of a character's brother and father commiting suicide years before the movie takes place.
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danikaviolet
there is mentions of a character's father who starved himself to death, but this character does not actually appear in the movie.
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mfms
Several dreams and events occur which suggest a character has PTSD from severe trauma, but the dreams and events are usually shown as having a supernatural cause rather than mental illness. An actor later reported he had PTSD from making the film.
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glitchybuddy
While not an extreme case, scenes showcasing the inside of the little tree-house at the end of the movie could feel claustrophobic to some people.
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Anonymous
There's a fair number of instances where characters self-harm in bizarre ways (think: by possession rather than by volition). Most are graphic/bloody.
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Pixi3
While not those specific words, the mother does have a breakdown in her room while being comforted by her husband while she screams that she wants to die
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Anonymous
No shakey cam, the camera is ominously smooth throughout.
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Does a baby cry?
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Cassiman
The cult stalks the family
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mfms
There are a lot of instances of characters staring at the camera, but it is because they are looking at something else implied to be where the camera is
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Anonymous
Not during the course of the movie, but miscarriage is mentioned when speaking of past events.
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Kells
There is mention of an attempted and failed miscarriage.
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randomuser1105
"ambiguously supernaturally trans"
There are no "trans" people in this film.
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heartshapedguitar
the whole metaphor of the movie is mental illness, especially the mother, and she’s represented as an abusive cult leader , so somewhat??
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danikaviolet
there is an exchange where a side character refers to something that a disabled character drew as ret*rded.
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GwendolynCox
One of the children shown has social issues. In a classroom scene, the teacher pushes her to finish her test in a way that could draw negative attention to this. Later, the mother yells at her, saying, "are you some kind of idiot," for displaying the same behavior. The same character's art is also called the r word
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Cassiman
This is easy to miss, but when Peter and Charlie go to the party, the music playing uses the n-word.
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Breanna
An important antagonist is in the movie to gain a male body after getting into a female body by accident.
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MaceRenaae
As far as I can remember there are no black people in the movie.
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danikaviolet
there's full frontal nudity but it isnt sexual
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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IndigoBlue14
No, but there is a mention of a grandmother breastfeeding her grandchild which the mother didn't want, which could be triggering to some.
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Is there BDSM?
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deniallol
Yes, but for horror purposes.
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KamiSteele
It's implied through the editing that a teenage boy stares at a female classmate's butt.
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heartshapedguitar
no, this movie is actually amazing at showing peters emotions
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heartshapedguitar
ellen has dementia but it’s not ever shown
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RosClark
It has a happy ending for the demon
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Logan Plonski
No, but there is a brutal death involving a car.
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mfms
The first violent scene involves a character driving a car and then trying to swerve around a dead animal in the road and later stopping. I don’t quite remember if there’s specifically the sound of tires screeching, but it’s very possible.
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eyesinthehills
Yes. The car itself is not damaged, but the scene is horrific and a character dies.

*EDIT* This site is for people who are upset by certain events in media. If someone has prior fear of/bad experiences with car crashes, this scene is almost sure to feed into that or upset them. THAT is the measure. THAT is why this scene falls into the category of car crash. It is car-accident-related trauma and there are not enough categories to nitpick what exactly goes in. The more informed people with specific fears can be going into a movie, the better.
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eyesinthehills
No characters are shown drowning, but a supporting character mentions that two of their family members (one being a child) died by drowning.
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Anonymous
there is blood, dismemberment, naked bodies with body parts missing, cutting, and head trauma shown in hereditary
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