Ari Aster
Director · Producer
40 years (Jul 15, 1986)New York City, New York, USA
Ari Aster is an American director born in New York City, celebrated for meticulously unsettling horror films examining grief and family trauma through slow-building dread. Hereditary, following a family unraveling after a devastating loss reveals darker supernatural forces at work, established his reputation for genuinely disturbing, meticulously constructed horror grounded in real psychological anguish. Midsommar, a daylight folk-horror film following a woman processing grief and a collapsing relationship amid an increasingly sinister Swedish pagan festival, extended his fascination with trauma rendered through vivid, immersive dread. Beau Is Afraid, an anxiety-driven surrealist odyssey, and Eddington, a pandemic-era satire, showed his willingness to push into more explicitly absurdist and expansive territory. Aster's meticulous, deeply unsettling examination of grief and family dysfunction through horror has made him one of the most significant genre directors of his generation.
Ari Aster
Director · Producer
Ari Aster is an American director born in New York City, celebrated for meticulously unsettling horror films examining grief and family trauma through slow-building dread. Hereditary, following a family unraveling after a devastating loss reveals darker supernatural forces at work, established his reputation for genuinely disturbing, meticulously constructed horror grounded in real psychological anguish. Midsommar, a daylight folk-horror film following a woman processing grief and a collapsing relationship amid an increasingly sinister Swedish pagan festival, extended his fascination with trauma rendered through vivid, immersive dread. Beau Is Afraid, an anxiety-driven surrealist odyssey, and Eddington, a pandemic-era satire, showed his willingness to push into more explicitly absurdist and expansive territory. Aster's meticulous, deeply unsettling examination of grief and family dysfunction through horror has made him one of the most significant genre directors of his generation.
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How old is Ari Aster and where are they from?
Ari Aster is 40 years old, born on July 15, 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.
What are the most famous roles of Ari Aster?
Ari Aster is best known for directing Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid.
How many movies has Ari Aster directed?
Over a 15-year career (since 2011), Ari Aster has directed or written 7 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Ari Aster's first movie?
The career of Ari Aster began with Untitled Sixth Ari Aster Feature Film ().
What is Ari Aster's most recent movie or series?
Ari Aster's most recent release is Eddington, which premiered on July 16, 2025.
Ari Aster
1986-07-15 · New York City, New York, USA
Ari Aster (born July 15, 1986) is an American filmmaker. His films are noted for their unsettling combination of dark comedy, horror, and graphic violence. After garnering some recognition for writing and directing the short horror film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011) as part of his studies at the AFI Conservatory, he became widely known for writing and directing the horror films Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019), establishing himself in the genre of elevated horror.
Aster co-founded the production company Square Peg with Danish producer Lars Knudsen in 2019. He pivoted away from horror by writing, directing, and producing the surrealist comedy-drama film Beau Is Afraid (2023) and the satirical neo-Western thriller film Eddington (2025). Both films received positive reviews but failed to recoup their budgets at the box office.Ari Aster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.