Ari Aster

How Did A ‘Neurotic Jewish Guy’ Make The Horror Hit ‘Hereditary’?

‘Hereditary,’ is being called one of the scariest movies ever made. And sure, it has levitating corpses, eerie visions, and spewing blood. But the themes the movie deals with — mother-child relationships, genetic disease, inherited trauma, crushing guilt, dysfunctional families, tragedy, and anxiety — aren’t typical of the genre. Jump scares aside — was “Hereditary”…