Joanie, The Scammer
After spending two weeks talking about dinosaurs with Tammy and the T-Rex and then Jurassic Park last week, it seemed like a good time to revisit a very serious, very somber contemporary classic: Ari Aster‘s 2018 family melodrama, Heredtiary, just in time for its 5th anniversary.
In the film, grieving diorama creator Annie (Toni Collette) has recently lost her mother, with whom she had a very contentious relationship. Almost immediately the family is hit with another loss when daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) is killed in a freak accident.
As Annie’s husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne) tries to keep the family together, Annie is befriended by Joan (Ann Dowd), a member of her grief counseling group, while her son Peter (Alex Wolff) begins to come under psychic attack. What’s really going on with all of these unusual events? The truth lies in the treehouse; just mind your head!
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Episode 234: Hereditary (2018) feat. Girl, That’s Scary
Avoid triangles and watch your head because we’re talking Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018) aka the film that we named our horror awards after!
We’re joined by mega fans Jazz and Kat from Girl, That’s Scary, who love the film, but wonder if Aster is ok?
It’s all about Toni Collette’s “bad mom”, but also shout-outs to Alex Wolff and Ann Dowd.
Plus: a trans reading of Paimon, Dante’s Inferno, secret clues, skittering and turkey noises, and the perils of making deals with the 8th King of Hell.
Cross out Hereditary!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re travelling back to 1989 to discuss the hair politics of queer director Justin Simien’s Bad Hair (2020)!
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