8 Horror Movies That Give Away Their Own Endings

Hereditary has a bunch of hidden Easter eggs throughout and this is what made Ari Aster’s directorial debut so smart and memorable to so many people. It also meant that the invested viewer was able to figure out where things were going long before that mind-bending finale.

In a scene showing Peter in his classroom, the discussion centres around Greek tragedy of Heracles: the undoing caused by the fatal flaw of wilful ignorance and whether it is more or less tragic if you never had any choice in your downfall.

When Annie finds her late mother’s occult books and reads about Paimon, the predetermined destiny of the family becomes a little clearer and it is Annie’s own ignorance that allows it to happen.

She clearly ignores about a million signs that her mother was in a satanic death cult and that something is really wrong: the Seal of Paimon is everywhere, including the post that decapitates Charlie, and as each bit of the film plays out, the seal is present in every major event in one way or another.

Once we see how planned things are and note the previous mention of predestined outcomes, we know that the film can only end one way: with Peter becoming the vessel for Paimon at the cost of everyone and everything that surrounds him.