20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2018

3. Off With Charlie's Head - Hereditary

Hereditary Charlie Dead
A24

Good luck getting that image out of your head. Hereditary is one of the year's most shocking and disturbing movies, and this isn't any truer than in the soul-wrenching sequence where poor Charlie (Milly Shapiro) has an allergic reaction to a nut-filled cake at a party.

Her high brother Peter (Alex Wolff) frantically drives her to the hospital, but as she sticks her head out her window and gasps for air, he swerves to avoid a dead animal, smashing his sister's head into a telephone pole in the process.

Director Ari Aster phenomenally builds tension by refusing to show the bloody remains of Charlie's body - at least at first - forcing us to drive home with Peter and wait for the inevitable traumatised reaction from their mother, Annie (Toni Collette).

Only then do we cut back to the sunny road the next morning, where Charlie's severed head is being feasted on by ants. Everything about this sequence is note-perfect, and delivers one of the most f***ed up cinematic jolts of the last few years.

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