Aster revealed that "Charlie's head being knocked off" was one of the first images that came to him before he wrote "Hereditary:" "The first images that came to me (before writing) were Charlie's ...
The scariest moment in Hereditary comes moments later when a smashing close-up of Charlie's head is shown in broad daylight hours later, with a swarm of flies picking at the little girl's beheaded ...
Charlie rarely speaks, only making clicking sounds, and was seen earlier in the film cutting the head off of a pigeon to make a kind of toy. The initial turning point in Hereditary takes place ...