PVR Picture's upcoming horror film Hereditary talks about certain fears that are paralyzing, insupportable – because they’re founded upon real-world forebodings, on outcomes either plausible or inevitable. And who other than the director Ari Aster can explain how it is to experience the hereditary fear first hand.

Aster began envisioning Hereditary after his own family endured a string of trials over a pummeling three-year period.