10 Greatest Movies About Death

Ari Aster's scintillating directorial debut Hereditary may have been marketed as a more conventional supernatural horror film, but its moments that stick with you are more of the emotional, visceral variety.

Focused on a woman, Annie (Toni Collette), as she and her family come to terms with a traumatic personal loss, Hereditary often feels like a straight-up drama about grief with a horror gloss blanketed over the top.

Watching Annie howl in grief over the death of a loved one early on is a devastating, unforgettable visual, and one which absolutely should've secured Collette a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

Even in its most familiar, heightened horror moments, though, Hereditary never forgets the spiritual toll of grief, ensuring an uncommonly affecting, even upsetting, riff on seemingly conventional ideas.

If horror movies too often treat death with a disposable flippancy, Hereditary makes the audience feel the anguish of each and every one.