Hereditary

Hereditary is the film that announced Ari Aster as the most important horror director of his generation. Toni Collette delivers a performance so raw and devastating that the Academy's failure to nominate her remains one of the great Oscar snubs. The film operates on two levels simultaneously — as a shattering family drama about grief and hereditary trauma, and as a slow-burn occult nightmare that builds to one of the most disturbing final acts in horror history. The car scene is the single most shocking moment in 21st-century cinema, and it earns its power through silence rather than spectacle.