10 Most Messed Up Horror Movie Siblings

Okay, it might be asking for trouble by not only putting both of Ari Aster’s films on this list, but also ranking them right next to each other. If it’s any excuse, Aster just knows how to write messed up family dynamics (if you haven’t seen The Strange Thing About the Johnsons… that’s honestly for the best.)

In his big screen debut, 2018’s Hereditary shows us, quite possibly, one of the most messed up families in recent horror history. Caught in the middle of unstable mother Annie and emotionally closed off father Steve are the two children: Peter and Charlie.

We know right from the get go that Charlie’s messed up as she likes to cut the heads off dead pigeons with a pair of scissors. She gets pretty physically messed up when she’s decapitated early in the film, and we learn that a demon was actually implanted into her body by her cult-leading grandma. One would suggest therapy but I don’t think her head’s in the right place for it.

Then there’s poor Peter Graham. Without knowing that his grandmother’s cult is behind Charlie’s death, he’s wracked with guilt and sees visions of Charlie haunting him everywhere. His own mum nearly killed him whilst she was sleepwalking, and didn’t even want him in the first place and THEN the demon king that lived in his sister ultimately possesses him. Sheesh. Plus he watches his mum get possessed and cut off her own head with telephone wire!

Your writer genuinely hopes Aster never has children of his own.