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Hereditary is a 2018 American psychological horror [4] film written and directed by Ari Aster in his feature directorial debut. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, the film follows a grieving family tormented by sinister occurrences after the death of their secretive grandmother.
- Ari Aster
Ari Aster (born July 15, 1986) is an American filmmaker....
- Ann Dowd
Ann Dowd (born January 30, 1956) is an American actress. She...
- Mallory Bechtel
Mallory Bechtel (born November 26, 1999) is an American...
- Ari Aster
Hereditary: Directed by Ari Aster. With Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro. A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
- (389K)
- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Ari Aster
- 2018-06-08
Hereditary uses its classic setup as the framework for a harrowing, uncommonly unsettling horror film whose cold touch lingers long beyond the closing credits. Read Critics Reviews
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- Ari Aster
- R
- Toni Collette
- Plot
- Cast
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Annie Graham is a miniatures artist who lives in Utah with her husband, Steve; their 16-year-old son, Peter; and their 13-year-old daughter, Charlie. At the funeral of her secretive mother, Ellen Leigh, Annie delivers a eulogy explaining their fraught relationship and her mother's extremely private life. A week after, Steve is informed that Ellen's...
Toni Collette as Annie GrahamAlex Wolff as Peter GrahamMilly Shapiro as Charlie GrahamGabriel Byrne as Steve GrahamThe entire interior of the Graham house was built on a sound stage.The original cut of the film was over 3 hours. Mostly consisting of more family character development.Ari wanted any effect that could be done practically to be done that way, instead of in post production.To make the chalkboard write on itself, the special effects team put a magnet in the chalk and put a magnet on the other side of the chalkboard to make the chalk move.Development:
Writer-director Ari Aster originally pitched Hereditary as a family tragedy before emending his script into a supernatural horror film in hopes of enticing distributors. A fan of domestic dramas, Aster incorporated themes of the genre into his script, envisioning a film rooted in family dynamics, trauma, and grief. He interpreted the film as two halves which are "completely inextricable from each other": "It begins as a family tragedy and then continues down that path, but gradually curdles i...
Casting:
Toni Collette was one of the first actresses Aster sought for the role of Annie Graham, a miniaturist and the matriarch of the Graham family. Though Collette was reluctant to work on a horror film, the script's grounded approach to the genre convinced her to commit to the project: "He [Aster] just really understood the dynamics in the family, has such an understanding of what it is to be human, what it is to experience loss". Gabriel Byrne agreed to play the family's patriarch Steve; Alex Wol...
Filming:
The film began shooting in February 2017 in Utah. The exteriors of the Graham family house and the tree house were shot in Summit County, Utah, and the school scenes were shot at West High School and Utah State Fairpark, but all other interiors (including both versions of the treehouse) were built from scratch on a sound stage. Since each of the rooms was built on a stage, walls could be removed to shoot scenes at a much greater distance than a practical location would allow, creating the dol...
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- 2 min
- 31.7M
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When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited.
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