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March 16, 2020
Ari Aster on Building the
Hereditary
Haunted Houses From Scratch
Ari Aster, director of the acclaimed Midsommar and Hereditary, talks in this essay about one of the hardest parts of
July 23, 2019
How They Did It:
Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in
Midsommar
In Midsommar — my sophomore feature about a codependent couple whose doomed fate leads them to a nightmarish summer solstice