Ari Aster

Ari Aster (born c. 1987/1988) is an American director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing the 2018 horror film Hereditary and the 2011 short film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons. 2Biography Aster was born in New York City. His father was a musician and his mother was a poet and he has a younger brother. His family is Jewish. He recalled going to see his first movie when he was four years old, Dick Tracy. The film featured a scene where a character fired a tommy gun while a wall of fire was behind him. Aster reportedly jumped from his seat and "ran six New York city blocks" where his mother had to chase him.Aster’s family briefly lived in England before moving to New Mexico, where he spent his teen years.He became obsessed with horror films growing up. "I just exhausted the horror section of every video store I could find [...] I didn't know how to assemble people who would cooperate on something like that [...] I found myself just writing screenplays". He graduated from the AFI Conservatory and met many of his future collaborators there.Aster's debut film was the controversial short The Strange Thing About the Johnsons in 201