This movie is right back at it with hating the victims/survivors of sexual assault. The entire opening credits is visibly disabled people and children born of incest. However, this is more information on their family and criminal history than we get in the entire rest of the movie combined. In case you didn’t read my review on Hereditary, I’ll explain my issue with incest-villains again. A reported (emphasis on reported) one-third of women are sexually assaulted, and it’s most frequently done by family. Making children born of incest into villains and monsters makes the victims/survivors of sexual assault into villains and monsters. This is utterly unacceptable.
Furthermore, one of the characters does the stereotypical “lunatic” laugh and has welts all over his head. He runs around unpredictably, stopping and starting, going in circles. Another bad guy, the first one whose face we see, has what appears to be the movie version of cleft palate. Later, we see that he has a sore on his head as well. Throughout the movie there are flashes of their deformed faces with thick skin, scars, missing teeth, and welts. There are flashes of their hands that have missing fingers and are torn to shreds. These three also don’t speak English, implying they’re too stupid to have learned it. The movie again goes out of its way to make the bad guys both physically and intellectually disabled, perpetuating horrific stereotypes. Yet again, no disabled protagonists.
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