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Slate's movie critic and today we are spoiling hereditary the new horror film

from the first-time writer director Ari Astor. Here to talk with me about the film, our freelance writer and friend of the

podcast, Rachel Sime. Hi Rachel. Hi, we saw this movie a few nights ago and you're still traumatized,

I gather. Yes, Dana made me go to this this but I'm actually very grateful to her. I made

you go because I was scared to go myself but the fact is... Yeah you needed a buddy.

Yeah but I think I took it better than you did in terms of getting back to sleep afterwards.

I'm also joined today by Lena Wilson.

Hi Lena.

Hi Dana.

Lena is a former slate intern.

You actually just left slate, right?

Quite recently.

And so you're freelancing too now and out writing on stuff including this movie hereditary.

Including this movie, yes.

And the last time we saw each other, we were jeweling together on this like Culture Grabfest.

We were sucking on mango-flavored zip drives or whatever they are.

Yeah, Dana and I babed together, so that's our history.

We've been through a lot, maybe not as intense as hereditary, but pretty intense.

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