Charlie, Hereditary (2018)
Charlie from Hereditary is a misunderstood girl who keeps to herself, wears oversized sweatshirts, and always has a dazed and confused look on her face. She enjoys drawing, cutting the head off a pigeon, creating dolls out of twigs and branches, and making peculiar clucking noises. She seems bizarre yet harmless, but the bleak revelations at the end of the film make us see Charlie in a more ominous light.
It turns out that her body is not truly hers but is inhabited by the soul of King Paimon–-an all-powerful ruler of hell–- who is scared and out-of-place in a female form (LOL). Charlie emphasizes what makes Hereditary such a devastating horror film: The characters are powerless, their destinies already decided by the malevolent cult. Charlie’s unsettling behavior is a reflection of her true self trapped, screaming on the inside, completely overtaken by a demon and stripped of her autonomy.
