The poster child of A24’s cerebral, “elevated” horror, Ari Aster infuses his scares with excellent production design and psychological intensity.

The poster child of A24’s cerebral, “elevated” horror, Ari Aster infuses his scares with excellent production design and psychological intensity.
Ari Aster’s first two movies, Hereditary and Midsommar, didn’t set my world on fire, but are both solid bits of direction undone by uneven plots stretched thin.
For a solid hour or so, Hereditary has something special going on.
Midsommar features an extremely striking use of light and color. It’s the first horror movie I’ve seen where the absence of darkness is part of the terror.