Four Ways Director Ari Aster Creates Brilliant Movies

Ari Aster (Photo: A24 Films/https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/7/17427554/hereditary-director-ari-aster-interview-toni-collette)

If you loved director Ari Aster’s seductively horrifying 2018 film Hereditary, you may be pleased to hear that Aster is back for round two of mind-bending madness. His new movie Midsommar just hit theatres the other day, and I was one of the first to go view it on the big screen. If you are curious to learn more about the director’s new movie, check out Midsommar: A Character Experience. It’s a movie well worth the watch, if you can take it.

In lieu of the new release, I have noted four things Aster does right when creating his brilliantly shocking films.

**Spoiler Alert!**

**If you have not yet watched Midsommar and/or Hereditary, this post may contain spoilers**

1. The trailers of Aster’s movies are ingeniously vague and misleading