The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Negotiate with Paimon; cultist nudity; hell as a blank slate; dark comedy
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- Hereditary is read as absurdly comic fatalism: attempts to understand or repair the family cannot prevent inherited doom.
- Take a meeting with Paimon and negotiate for wealth and insight rather than let the family be decapitated.
- The cultists’ rejection of clothes and shame has appeal; whether naked smiling people are scarier than dangerous animals is debated.
- Hell-based horror is called easy to invent because its rules are unconstrained; the defense is that Aster researched actual demon lore.