Hereditary - Le radici del male

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Filmed in Utah Film Studios in Park City Utah	D
Gabriel Byrne played Alex Wolff's dad previously in the HBO TV show In Treatment (2008)-- they have [...]	D
One of the trailers for Hereditary (2018) was accidentally shown at the beginning the PG rated famil [...]	D
Many of the cast and crew view the film as a family drama more than a horror movie.	D
Ari Aster wanted to go for scares that were emotionally justified, rather than solely leaning on tra [...]	D
Ari Aster was heavily influenced by the film Il cuoco, il ladro, sua moglie e l'amante (1989).	D
Ari Aster liked Utah for the film because he thought its mountains are beautiful and breathtaking, b [...]	D
Anticipating the criticism on why Charlie carelessly ate a nut-filled chocolate cake slice knowing s [...]	D
Toni Collette and Alex Wolff share a birthday (November 1).	D
Toni Collette has called Ari Aster the most prepared director she's ever worked with. She praised hi [...]	D
Charlie's diorama in the film shows headless figurines bowing to a pigeon-headed creature with a cro [...]	D
(at around 30 mins) During the party scene, just as Peter enters the bedroom to smoke weed, some kid [...]	D
Ari Aster also designed a 75-page shot list for the cinematography before they even had locations sc [...]	D
The film premiered on January 21, 2018 at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight section.	D
The production designer also used Utah, where the film was shot, as inspiration for the set.	D
(at around 4 mins) During her funeral speech Annie mentions that there are many strangers at the cer [...]	D
At the end when the life-sized figurine of the demon Paimon is shown, the fingers of its right hand [...]	D
Alex Wolff decided to go method for this film and insisted on being referred to as 'Peter' during pr [...]	D
Feature film debut of Milly Shapiro.	D
One way that Ari Aster pitched the film when he was first taking it out was "it's a story about a lo [...]	D
Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro also had to go out in character and buy Milly a sweatshirt, and Alex ha [...]	D
The miniature houses become almost a character in the film. When Steve initially met with Ari Aster, [...]	D
Ari Aster reached out to composer Colin Stetson two years prior to production.	D
Ari Aster wanted any effect that could be done practically to be done that way, instead of in post p [...]	D
Director of photography Pawel Pogorzelski was Ari Aster's classmate at the American Film Institute C [...]	D
When Annie goes to Joan's house, she comments that she has the same type of rug Annie's mom knitted. [...]	D
Hereditary's advertising campaign has been credited for keeping Charlie's death a secret from viewer [...]	D
Toni Collette (Annie) is 22 years younger than her on-screen husband, Gabriel Byrne.	D
The producer said that it worked out well that Gabriel Byrne and Alex Wolff had worked together, and [...]	D
The script was originally written to take place in a snowy landscape in the mountains, but due to ca [...]	D
The movie contains around 85 minutes of music, and Colin Stetson worked 16-hour days at times in ord [...]	D
The filmmakers had to fireproof almost everything in the room (furniture, walls, wardrobe) during th [...]	D
According to Ari Aster, with Hereditary, he wanted to make a film about the corrosive effects of tra [...]	D
When she first meets Joan, Annie talks about how she was sleepwalking and covered Peter and Charlie [...]	D
Toni Collette doesn't actually like horror films which is what made her hesitant at first to act in [...]	D
Ari Aster has 10 screenplays written he hopes to direct over the course of his career.	D
(at around 1h 35 mins) In one of the scenes in Peter's classroom, the teacher is talking about the s [...]	D
Ari Aster has been writing screenplays from a very young age, but eventually realized he would want [...]	D
Production designer Grace Yun did research on pagan rituals and cults to prepare for designing the s [...]	D
Both Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro attended Professional Children's School, and already knew each oth [...]	D
The smiling man from the grandmother's funeral can be seen in a dark doorway towards the end of the [...]	D
The special effects team had to learn how to do effects they'd never done before, such as making a c [...]	D
Colin Stetson used his own vocals in his score.	D
Production designer had to work simultaneously with miniaturist to ensure the Graham house and the m [...]	D
Originally, Steve Newburn had been contacted about providing the makeup effects for Hereditary, but [...]	D
According to Alex Wolff, the original cut of the film could have easily pushed over 3 hours. The cut [...]	D
For Ari Aster, the film itself is a running metaphor for family trauma and grief. It is operating al [...]	D
(at around 28 mins) When Peter and Charlie are on their way to the party, the cult's logo can be see [...]	D
The first decapitation scene is very similar to a real-life event in Marietta, GA, in 2004. A young [...]	D
Toni Collette had told her agent that she didn't want to do any more heavy, dark films and only want [...]	D
Ari Aster had originally written this film to be a straight up family drama, dealing with the grief [...]	D
This was the fourth A24 movie to get a wide release after The Witch (2015), Free Fire (2016) and It [...]	D
The use of a piano wire for Annie's self-inflicted decapitation is foreshadowed moments before by th [...]	D
Colin Stetson, the composer and a saxophonist, has toured with Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, TV on the Radi [...]	D
The symbol that's shown throughout the film, particularly on the necklace that Annie and her mother [...]	D
The film was shot in 32 days.	D
The primary direction Ari Aster gave composer Colin Stetson for the score was to make it "feel evil. [...]	D
Toni Collette said one of her most memorable moments on set was being doused in water fully clothed [...]	D
Steve Newburn and his team also built an animatronic puppet of the family's 13-year-old daughter Cha [...]	D
This film is director Ari Aster's feature debut.	D
(at around 1h 35 mins) In an interview, Alex Wolff explains that he wanted to actually break his own [...]	D
(at around 1h 55 mins) Toni Collette wore a prosthetic neck and used a piano string for the scene wh [...]	D
Toni Collette also stars in the Showtime series United States of Tara (2009), featuring Toni as a wo [...]	D
When Steve is looking through Charlie's book, he finds a picture of a pigeon wearing a crown. The cr [...]	D
For Ari Aster, Hereditary is equally inspired by family dramas (Gente comune (1980), Tempesta di ghi [...]	D
During the support meeting, Annie recounts her brother's suicide at age 16, and states that his suic [...]	D
There's a good deal of loud sound effects and music in the sound track. This is actually fitting to [...]	D
Alex Wolff is a huge horror movie buff, which is what convinced him to accept his role in the film.	D
With Hereditary, Ari Aster wanted to "make a film about suffering that took suffering seriously".	D
During the therapy session Annie tells of a troubled family history that she had largely kept to her [...]	D
Milly Shapiro's most memorable moment was her stunt scene during the car accident where she was teth [...]	D
The film contains many uses of birds as symbolism and imagery, best example is when Charlie cuts off [...]	D
(at around 16 mins) Early in the film, Charlie cuts off an already-dead pigeon's head outside her sc [...]	D
The entire interior of the Graham house was built on a sound stage.	D
Ari Aster: (at around 1h 23 mins) the voice on the phone calling Annie about her exhibit date at the [...]	D
Ari Aster wrote detailed biographies and backstories for all of the characters before even writing t [...]	D
One of the realistic and disturbing makeups that Steve Newburn and his crew produced was a broken no [...]	D
The fact that Toni Collette did not land any Golden Globe or Academy Award (Oscar) nominations for h [...]	D
Ari Aster regularly listened to composer Colin Stetson's earlier music while he was writing the scri [...]	D
Once they found the cemetery surrounded by snow peak mountains, they knew they had found the locatio [...]	D
The production designer designed pieces for the house that were meant to be pieces from Annie's prev [...]	D
The language spoken during the "invocation" that is given to Annie is a combination of Hebrew and En [...]	D
The house was constructed completely on sets on a soundstage in Utah in order to follow Ari Aster's [...]	D
The makeup team supplies other severed heads and bodies, some rotted, that appear later in the film. [...]	D
Ari Aster started building a network of potential collaborators for this film years before the proje [...]	D
Ari Aster requested that Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro go out to eat in character a few times, and th [...]	D
Alex Wolff said that Gabriel Byrne is one of his favorite people he's ever gotten to work with.	D
Colin Stetson saw the score as its own character in the film.	D
(at around 14 mins) In an early scene, the subject of free will is discussed while mentioning one of [...]	D
There are many clues, as to Peter being the one who is the desired host for Paimon. Peter was the on [...]	D
Annie's mother Ellen likely tried to summon Paimon through her son Charles before his suicide, which [...]	D
(at around 1h 2 mins) In the art store parking lot scene, the chalkboard is shown still packaged in [...]	D
(at around 1h 20 mins) Throughout the film, several words can be seen scrawled on walls. At one poin [...]	D
According to the definition of its maker, Ari Aster, Hereditary is a film about suffering.	D
(at around 16 mins) Charlie is eating a Dove candy bar when she cuts off the bird's head.	D
Production designer wanted to play with the idea of "sacred geometry"--triangle (Annie, Peter, Charl [...]	D
Alex Wolff said that this film was more demanding than anything he'd ever done.	D
Hereditary's production designer and costume designer also worked on A24's First Reformed - La creaz [...]	D
In the opening shot, a life rune (upside down peace sign) can be seen constructed into the side of t [...]	D
One of Peter's friends from underneath the bleachers can be seen at the end of the film as one of th [...]	D
Mallory Bechtel's debut.	D
Composer Colin Stetson found inspiration for the score through the sounds of "water and animals whil [...]	D
(at around 1h 6 mins) To make the chalkboard write on itself, the special effects team put a magnet [...]	D
Annie Graham (Toni Collette) says her mother had Disassociative Identity Disorder, a condition which [...]	D
The ominous song at the end of the film is a special rendition of a song called "Zadok the Priest", [...]	D
Toni Collette stated that she went to the gym a lot during shooting because she needed to be moving [...]	D
(at around 14 mins) In Peter's first scene at school, the words "Escaping Fate" is on the chalkboard [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D

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