![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, there are familiar elements here. Like, “Okay, am I only working on the level of the allegorical? Or am I giving in to the genre in maybe a broader sense and going for a different kind of catharsis? What’s funny about it especially in the horror genre is that you can aim to make a satisfying one, but you’re always drawing a line in the sand. ![]() Ultimately, I did want to make a film that was seriously tackling these issues and operating almost as a meditation on these things, while at the same time functioning as an exciting genre film that hopefully delivers. I knew that I wanted to make a film that had sort of an ouroboros quality about a family that’s basically eating itself in its grief. I knew that I really wanted to make a film about the corrosive effects of trauma on a family unit. But what might serve as a deterrent for an audience in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another. You might not be able to get it made.Īs somebody who struggled for almost a decade to get a feature going, I know how that goes. If you want to make a bleak drama about grief and trauma and people trying and failing to navigate tragedy, then you might very well end up with a wonderful film that either doesn’t find distribution or it doesn’t get seen or just simply doesn’t get financed. One thing I love about genre filmmaking in general, and certainly the horror genre, is that you can take thematic material that may be harder for some people to digest, or material that you want to talk honestly about, without having to compromise whatever your message might be, or without the same risk of losing an audience. We often struggle to talk about mental illness and, thus, use a genre as a lens to do so. Tell me about your experience with horror confronting issues of mental illness. This is a really interesting story about mental illness, if you want to look at it through one particular lens. Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. (Don’t worry I’ve marked those spoilers and put them at the end of the interview.) He was forthcoming on all of that, as well as on discussion of his influences. I wanted to talk to Aster about these qualities of the film, but I also wanted to ask him some questions about the research he did into the from the movie’s legitimately unhinged climax. Hereditary is the terrifying arthouse horror film of the year ![]()
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