A Family Horror Tale, the Scariest Movie of 2018

Rolling Stone
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Ari Aster
  • USA 2018
  • 127 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

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.

Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a promising auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.

Feature Debut


  • Director Ari Aster
  • Production Kevin Frakes
  • Script Ari Aster
  • Cinematography Pawel Pogorzelski
  • Editing Lucian Johnston, Jennifer Lame
  • Music Colin Stetson
  • Festivals Sundance, SXSW
  • Actors Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd
  • Source A24, New York

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