Before he ever directed a feature film, Ari Aster gained some notoriety for The Strange Thing About the Johnsons , which came out in 2011 and definitely went to… places . Not nice places, but Ari Aster went to them, and it was a sign of things to come for sure. He made his feature directorial debut seven years later, and has continued working at that scale since, initially with a pair of horror movies, then with a horror/comedy/epic film, and then eventually moving away from horror entirely with his fourth film… kind of. He’s probably found the most success both critically and commercially with horror, but it’s admirable that Aster doesn’t want to just be known for horror, even though he’s so far been pretty damn good at helming that kind of movie. It’s harder to know what to mak

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