Ari Aster

Ari Aster

Birth : 1986-07-15, New York City, New York, USA

History

Ari Aster (born July 15, 1986) is an American writer-director, best known for the acclaimed horror films "Hereditary" (2018), "Midsommar" (2019) and Beau is Afraid (2023). He has also written and directed several short films, including "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons" (2011), "Beau" (2011), "Munchausen" (2013), and "Basically" (2014).

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Ari Aster
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Movies

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In a near-future Boston, an amateur stand up comedian with memory problems struggles to maintain his sobriety as he falls for his transgender best friend. After she rejects his affection, he hears of a company that can give him another chance with her. Introducing NuYou: a business that creates human clones for the modern day consumer.
Dream Scenario
Producer
A schlubby professor who never made it becomes an overnight celebrity after appearing in every person on Earth's dream.
Beau Is Afraid
Producer
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.
Beau Is Afraid
Writer
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.
Beau Is Afraid
Director
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.
The Bones
Executive Producer
Using human corpses and invoking the spirits of two damned Secretaries of State, a girl performs a ritual to free the kingdom of Chile from its feudal heritage.
Midsommar
Writer
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Midsommar
Director
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Hereditary
Asher Gallery Representative (voice) (uncredited)
Following the death of Ellen Leigh, the matriarch of their family, her daughter Annie and the rest of the family start to uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
Hereditary
Director
Following the death of Ellen Leigh, the matriarch of their family, her daughter Annie and the rest of the family start to uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
Hereditary
Writer
Following the death of Ellen Leigh, the matriarch of their family, her daughter Annie and the rest of the family start to uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
C'est la Vie
Editor
In a series of clinical tableaux comprising a sort of apocalyptic travelogue of the LA streets, an aggressive homeless man berates the viewer regarding the circumstances of his life and the wrongness of everything.
C'est la Vie
Director
In a series of clinical tableaux comprising a sort of apocalyptic travelogue of the LA streets, an aggressive homeless man berates the viewer regarding the circumstances of his life and the wrongness of everything.
C'est la Vie
Writer
In a series of clinical tableaux comprising a sort of apocalyptic travelogue of the LA streets, an aggressive homeless man berates the viewer regarding the circumstances of his life and the wrongness of everything.
Basically
Writer
A bright but acid-tongued young actress walks the viewer through the drudgeries of her privileged life in a series of clinical tableaux.
Basically
Director
A bright but acid-tongued young actress walks the viewer through the drudgeries of her privileged life in a series of clinical tableaux.
The Turtle's Head
Editor
An aging, hilariously slimy detective (with a taste for womanizing) is distracted from the case of his career when he starts developing a mysterious medical condition.
The Turtle's Head
Screenplay
An aging, hilariously slimy detective (with a taste for womanizing) is distracted from the case of his career when he starts developing a mysterious medical condition.
The Turtle's Head
Director
An aging, hilariously slimy detective (with a taste for womanizing) is distracted from the case of his career when he starts developing a mysterious medical condition.
Munchausen
Writer
A mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure by making him sick. Unfortunately, she goes too far.
Munchausen
Director
A mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure by making him sick. Unfortunately, she goes too far.
Beau
Hall Freak
A neurotic middle-aged man's trip (to visit his mother) is delayed indefinitely when his keys are mysteriously taken from his door. He is subsequently haunted by an increasingly sinister chain of upsetting events.
Beau
Editor
A neurotic middle-aged man's trip (to visit his mother) is delayed indefinitely when his keys are mysteriously taken from his door. He is subsequently haunted by an increasingly sinister chain of upsetting events.
Beau
Writer
A neurotic middle-aged man's trip (to visit his mother) is delayed indefinitely when his keys are mysteriously taken from his door. He is subsequently haunted by an increasingly sinister chain of upsetting events.
Beau
Director
A neurotic middle-aged man's trip (to visit his mother) is delayed indefinitely when his keys are mysteriously taken from his door. He is subsequently haunted by an increasingly sinister chain of upsetting events.
TDF Really Works
Writer
A fake advert for "Tino's Dick Fart" device.
TDF Really Works
Director
A fake advert for "Tino's Dick Fart" device.
TDF Really Works
A fake advert for "Tino's Dick Fart" device.
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
Writer
A dark domestic melodrama about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
Director
A dark domestic melodrama about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.
Herman's Cure-All Tonic
Director
Harold works the pharmacy counter for his sickly, abusive father Herman, the inventor and purveyor of an in-demand health elixir. The meek young man struggles with obsessive requests and severe criticism from his customers, until one day he hits upon an idea...
Untitled Ari Aster Project
Producer
Plot TBA.
Untitled Ari Aster Project
Writer
Plot TBA.
Untitled Ari Aster Project
Director
Plot TBA.
Butterfly Jam
Producer
It tells the story of a complex relationship between father and son, in which the son imbues his father with qualities he doesn’t actually possess
Untitled Michael R. Jackson Horror Project
Producer
Enter Zēp
Co-Director
An epic and terrifying mosaic of many interrelated characters and creatures in the alternate fantasy world of Zēp, all searching for the meanings of Good, Evil, and Imagination.
Enter Zēp
Producer
An epic and terrifying mosaic of many interrelated characters and creatures in the alternate fantasy world of Zēp, all searching for the meanings of Good, Evil, and Imagination.
Enter Zēp
Ulyoff
An epic and terrifying mosaic of many interrelated characters and creatures in the alternate fantasy world of Zēp, all searching for the meanings of Good, Evil, and Imagination.
Save the Green Planet!
Producer
English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film.
Eddington
Writer
Described as western noir dark comedy ensemble piece set in modern day New Mexico.
Eddington
Director
Described as western noir dark comedy ensemble piece set in modern day New Mexico.