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March 16, 2020
Ari Aster on Building the
Hereditary
Haunted Houses From Scratch
How Hereditary and Midsommar writer-director Ari Aster tells Moviemaker how he and his crew built miniature sets to deliver maximum terror.
July 23, 2019
How They Did It:
Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in
Midsommar
Seamless stunt work, smartly drawn shot lists, and sun-soaked lighting fueled the morbid mountaintop sequence of writer- director Ari Aster’s Midsommar.