‘Hereditary’ & ‘The Exorcist’

When a movie, particularly of the horror genre, truly confounds and disturbs people, superlatives often follow en masse. It’s easier to generalize such a visceral viewing event as “the scariest film since The Exorcist” or one that’s “absolutely terrifying” than it is to identify and articulate what makes it so confounding and disturbing (and indeed absolutely terrifying).