NEXT GENERATION

and 1970s catapults the writerdirector into the vanguard of contemporary horror auteurs.

The film’s superb cast, led by an astonishingly good Toni Collette, represents another strong draw for this movie.

In her eulogy at Ellen’s funeral, Annie declares her love for her mother but openly acknowledges that she was a difficult woman, private and secretive.

She checks in on her eldest teenager Peter (Alex Wolff), an easygoing stoner, to see if the funeral upset him and gets an untroubled smile in response.

Only Charlie, a brooding 13-year-old with a rat’s nest of hair and a sketchpad full of angry drawings (even her bunnies and chickens look evil) seems genuinely disturbed by grandma’s passing.

We learn about grandma’s dark side when Annie spills details of her psychotically depressed father’s suicide by starvation.

In addition, her schizophrenic older brother hanging himself, leaving a note accusing their mother of “putting people inside him”.