The cult planned to kill Charlie and transfer her/Paimon’s soul into Peter, but Leigh died before this could happen. Leigh and her cult succeeded in conjuring Paimon, but since Charlie (who was never actually Charlie, but always Paimon) was female, he was not satisfied and didn’t give the cult members the riches promised to them for completing the ritual. They had (somewhat) reconciled by the time Annie’s daughter Charlie ( Milly Shapiro) was born, so Leigh began working on her. Unfortunately for Leigh, she and Annie were estranged at the time Peter was born. Since Annie, as a female, couldn’t be a satisfactory host for Paimon, she wanted to use Annie’s son Peter ( Alex Wolff). When that attempt failed, Leigh moved on to Annie. Charles later committed suicide, accusing his mother of trying to put people in him in his suicide note. Before the events of the film, Leigh tried to conjure Paimon into the body of her son Charles. The ending of Hereditary reveals that Annie Graham’s ( Toni Collette) mother Ellen Leigh (referred to as Leigh from this point forward) is the queen of a cult whose sole purpose is to conjure Paimon, one of the eight kings of Hell, into a male host. ***SPOILERS for Hereditary to follow***Īt the risk of becoming one of those “ Hereditary‘s Ending….EXPLAINED!” articles, let’s recap the film: I thought I would share some of my findings with you (and yes, I fully realize that this article is about six months late). These were my third and fourth viewings of the film, and I was shocked to find that I was noticing things that I hadn’t noticed on my first or second viewings of the film. That being said, I still decided to show the film to both of my families over the Thanksgiving holiday (once with my husband’s side of the family and once with my side), watching the film twice in 48 hours.
Complete with deeply uncomfortable familial encounters, intense moments of grief and suffering and a few decapitations, it’s not exactly family viewing material. Admittedly, it is not an easy film to watch. Released in theaters nationwide back in June, the film has proved polarizing for viewers.
In case you haven’t heard, there’s this film called Hereditary ( my review) that’s been scaring the pants off viewers ever since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January.
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