Thursday, April 3, 7:00 pm
ODY Library, 24 Hour Study Room
SLU Libraries present the award-winning horror film Hereditary. Dr. Ashley Rife, Performance and Communication Arts, will provide an introduction and guide an optional discussion afterward.
When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more she discovers, the more the family finds themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited.
Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.
Nominated for Best Female Lead and Best First Feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival.
Rated R for horror violence, disturbing images, language, drug use and brief graphic nudity.
Limited performance rights provided by Kanopy in association with A24.
Upcoming film:
- The Dark Crystal, hosted by Michael Amrozowicz, Library - April 10, 7:00 pm
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