Does Hereditary live up to its hype? Psychology, horror & definition.

Wess Haubrich
7 min readJun 11, 2018
HEREDITARY French poster.

Hereditary does not pander to anything and it does not operate on a jump scare a minute like most of today’s horror. It is intelligent and intelligently paced. It does not use narrative devices or clichés to in essence talk down to its audience. Hereditary values your opinion and expectations. Then it seeks to subvert them.

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Wess Haubrich

Horror, crime, noir with a distinctly southwestern tinge. Staff writer, former contributing editor; occultist; anthropologist of symbols.