{"id":38899,"date":"2023-10-30T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1916484"},"modified":"2023-10-30T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:10:51","slug":"hereditary-ending-explained-what-happens-to-annie","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/hereditary-ending-explained-what-happens-to-annie\/","title":{"rendered":"Hereditary ending explained: What happens to Annie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What really happened at the end of Ari Aster’s acclaimed debut horror? <\/p>

By Sam Moore\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 30 October 2023 at 14:36 PM<\/p>

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One of the most talked about horror films of the last decade, Ari Aster<\/a>\u2019s Hereditary set the template for what some call \u201celevated horror\u201d, in the sense that the film is slow, atmospheric and more interested in the metaphysical than slasher kills.<\/p>\n

A surprise success when it was released in 2017, Hereditary (which was conceived as a family drama) follows a grieving family who start to become tormented by a demon in the aftermath of the death of their mysterious grandmother.<\/p>\n

Toni Collette<\/a> stars as Annie, who, at the beginning of the film, attends her mother\u2019s funeral and is surprised by the amount of people there to pay their respects. Afterwards, she goes to brief counselling in which she reminisces about their fraught relationship that only began to heal after the birth of Annie\u2019s daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro), who is the only one really upset by the death.<\/p>\n

Charlie is a horror movie child in the sense that she makes creepy dolls and does weird things with animals \u2013 particularly one thing with a pigeon that is deeply disturbing.<\/p>

She later accompanies her brother Peter (Alex Wolff) to a party, where her severe nut allergy is triggered after eating a piece of cake. Peter then races Charlie to the hospital in his car, and she sticks her head out of the window for air. Charlie is then decapitated by a wooden post with an occult symbol carved into it.<\/p>\n

Suffering from shock, Peter leaves Charlie\u2019s headless body in the back of the car where it is found by their mother the next morning.<\/p>\n

Once again struck by grief, Annie makes friends with a woman named Joan (Ann Dowd), who conducts a seance for the two of them in which she appears to contact her deceased grandson.<\/p>\n

Awed by the seance, Annie insists her family attend one of their own to contact Charlie. Things, of course, take a very spooky turn as objects begin to move by themselves and Annie seemingly becomes possessed by the spirit of Charlie.<\/p>\n

Annie then sees images in Charlie\u2019s sketchbook that depict Peter\u2019s eyes scratched out and, when attempting to burn the book in the fireplace, her clothes go up in flames instead.<\/p>\n

Annie slowly begins to discover her mother\u2019s relationship to the occult, finding books that contain references to demons before eventually realising that her mother (Kathleen Chalfant) was Queen Leigh, the leader of a coven.<\/p>\n

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