Clearly, most of the movies I do these deep trivia dives on are on the older side, such as the 1970's and 1980's. Today I'm going to do a rare, more recent offering. I think it's the most recent one I've done, in fact. Anyway, "Hereditary" is great. It has excellent acting performances, especially from Toni Collette, who owns this movie. And, despite its supernatural plot twists, it still somehow feels grounded, and realistic. I think because it's a slow burn type of movie helps. So, if you're a horror fan and somehow missed this one, you should rectify this quickly. It'll be the usual, questions followed by answers format, with many SPOILERS abound.
Questions:
1) The death announcement that opens the film provides much information about the characters. What was Annie's mother full name?
2) How old was Annie's mom when she died?
3) What was the name of Annie's deceased father?
4) In what year does this movie take place?
5) What was the name of the cemetery where Annie's mom was buried?
6) What is the name of the Graham's family dog?
7) Annie makes miniatures and sells them. How far in the future is her current deadline with the art gallery?
8) What is the name of Annie's art/business website?
9) Annie reads a nice but vague message from her mother that's written in a yellow book. What is the title of this book?
10) Annie secretly goes to some group therapy sessions. Where does she say she's going in her lie to Steve?
11) What is the subject name of the therapy session that Annie goes to?
12) According to Annie, what two disorders/diseases did her mother suffer from?
13) According to Annie, how did her father die?
14) How old was Annie's older brother Charles when he committed suicide?
15) At whose house is the party that Peter and Charlie attend?
16) What does Peter lie and say is the social event that he and Charlie are going to is?
17) What is the name of the art gallery that's handling Annie's miniatures?
18) What is the name of the classmate that Peter is romantically interested in?
19) How does Charlie come to be decapitated?
20) How old was Charlie when she died?
21) According to Joan, who were the family members that she recently lost?
22) What incident, that occurred about 2 years before, caused extra tension between Annie and Peter?
23) During the seance, we hear the name of Joan's youngest deceased relative. What is it?
24) And what message does this relative write on the chalkboard?
25) What two gallery employees contact Annie about the miniatures?
26) Joan goes to Peter's school and starts yelling at him from a distance, although only he can hear it. What exactly does she say?
27) The cult is trying to put Paimon, a demon or evil spirit, into Peter's body. What is Paimon known as? As in a title.
28) What is the name of the organization that Steve works for?
29) What high school does Peter attend?
30) How does Annie kill herself?
31) According to Joan, Paimon is one of how many Kings of Hell?
32) Again according to Joan, what direction did they look at to call Paimon in?
33) What will Paimon's cult members receive for their worship of him?
34) What song is playing at the credits roll?
35) Did the Graham family dog make it out alive?
36) What was Charlie's main hobby?
37) What is the signal that Paimon/Charlie is near?
38) In total, what did Annie's mom do to bring Paimon into the human world?
39) Why didn't Paimon go into some other guy's body, instead of waiting to be put into Peter? (Conjectural)
40) Was there any of human Charlie's personality inside her body, or was it all Paimon? (Conjectural)
41) Did the cult and/or Paimon kill Charlie? (Conjectural)
42) Did Annie almost kill her son by burning him in the sleepwalking episode intentionally, on some deep subconscious level? (Conjectural)
Answers:
1) Ellen Taper Leigh.
2) 78.
3) Martin Leigh.
4) Ellen died on 4/3/18, so in the U.S. that means April of 2018, or the same year the movie was released.
5) Spring Blossom Cemetery.
6) Rexy
7) 6 and a half months.
8) Small World.
9) "Notes on Spiritualism."
10) The movies.
11) "Losing a Loved One."
12) DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and dementia.
13) Suffering from psychotic depression, he starved himself to death.
14) 16.
15) Aaron's
16) A school barbecue.
17) Archer Gallery.
18) Briget.
19) Peter is driving her to the hospital because the cake she ate at the party had nuts in it, causing a bad allergic reaction. Charlie sticks her head out the window to try to breathe better. Peter swerves to avoid hitting a dead deer in the road, and in doing so goes off the road slightly. Charlie is then decapitated by a telephone pole.
20) 13.
21) Her son, and her 7 year old grandson, who (allegedly) both died in a drowning accident.
22) While sleepwalking, Annie entered Peter and Charlie's shared bedroom and doused them, and herself in paint thinner, They all woke up when she struck a match. Annie then put the match out, and no one was hurt.
23) Louis, her grandson.
24) "I Luv yu Granma" (sic)
25) Sylvia, and then Patrick.
26) "Peter I expel you! Zantany! Dagdany! Aparagon!"
27) He's known as the God of Mischief.
28) United Psychiatry, as per his email address.
29) West High School.
30) She cuts off her own head using piano wire, from the family piano.
31) 8.
32) The Northwest.
33) They will gain Paimon's knowledge of secret things. They will receive honor, wealth, and good familiars. And he will bind all men to their will, just as they bound themselves to Paimon's.
34) "Both Sides Now, " written by Joni Mitchell, but this is the version where Judy Collins is singing.
35) It doesn't look like it. At the end he can be briefly seen lying motionless on the lawn.
36) Drawing in her sketch pad.
37) Tongue clicking, which Charlie/Paimon does frequently.
38) It was clearly a decades-long plan. Initially she tried to put Paimon into her oldest son Charles. (He claimed she was trying to put people into him.) But Charles thwarted her by killing himself before the possession was complete. Next she tried to pressure Annie into having children, even though Annie was ambivalent about being a mother. But, the tension and disagreements between Annie and her mom caused Steve to convince Annie to avoid her mom while she was pregnant with, and gave birth to Peter, thwarting Annie's mom again. Later, Annie's mom made amends enough with Annie that she was allowed around Annie when she was pregnant and gave birth to Charlie. Therefore, Annie's mom and the cult were able to put Paimon into Charlie. Only Paimon strongly demands a male host body, so they killed Charlie's body after 13 years, freeing Paimon's spirit. Joan then tricked Annie into doing the rituals that let Paimon enter Peter. Steve is gotten rid of via evil magic. Some evil spirit also possesses Annie near the end, to expedite things. So, finally, Paimon is the proud new owner of a healthy male body.
39) This is unknown, but all signs point to Annie's mother being the pre-eminent priestess of Paimon, so Paimon could apparently only possess people in her bloodline.
40) According to Ari Aster, the writer/director, we're supposed to think that the girl we see is only Paimon's personality, with none of the real Charlie. Paimon in his Charlie skin suit is scared, and confused about being resurrected. He feels disconnected, and used, and may not even be totally evil. But here I'm going to disagree, because this doesn't jibe with what we see of Charlie, and learn about Paimon's nature. I think the real human Charlie personality is mostly in charge. Since Charlie is odd, certainly, but acts like a regular human girl, albeit one with some socialization problems, who may be on the autism spectrum or something. Surely if one of the Kings of Hell, a leader in the domain of Evil was fully in charge, she would act differently, more confident, manipulative....more evil. Sure, she shows signs of Paimon's influence, with her focus on morbid things like bird's heads and such, but these are rare. My take is that Paimon hates being in a female body so much that he's kind of disconnected, just along for the ride, so to speak. He'll only take 100% control once he's in a male body, like Peter's. But to claim such an important leader of Hell is confused, scared, and maybe not even evil doesn't make any sense to me. But that's just my opinion.
41) It sure seems so. Maybe they had the gift of prophecy, so they knew that Charlie would go to the party, and would incur the severe allergic reaction, and die in a car accident. And/or they used magic to implant the idea to push Charlie to attend the party into Annie's head. And maybe they used magic again to have everyone forget to bring Charlie's EpiPen to the party. Then, more directly, they followed the kids to the party, and killed the deer and left its body in the road, near the telephone pole. (It was previously marked with their cult symbol.) It's far-fetched, obviously, but these folks and the spirit they worship have powerful supernatural powers, after all!
42) Maybe. On some level she probably suspected that her mom was evil, and had done things to Annie's older brother and their father, resulting in their deaths. She also may have suspected, subconsciously, that her mom and her fellow Paimon cultists had helped Paimon possess Charlie, and would try to switch Paimon to Peter at some point, too. Death of the person before they're completely possessed does stop it, as Annie's brother Charles proved decades previously. It's harsh, but maybe killing Peter, and Charlie, might have saved their souls, and it also would certainly have stopped a King of Hell from having a human body on Earth, and causing untold amounts of misery on innocent people. Or else maybe Annie was psychotic and bitter. Who knows? But her explanation that it was just a random sleepwalking incident clearly seems ridiculously incorrect.
