The day after Martin Scorsese premiered “The Irishman” at the New York Film Festival, he had an on-stage chat with the fest's outgoing director Kent Jones at Alice Tully Hull. The whole conversation is worth a watch, as, during the course of the 30 minutes they had, Scorsese and Jones ended up talking about a host of topics, including Scorsese’s love for Joanna Hogg and Ari Aster.
Scorsese lauded Aster's “Hereditary” and its ability to create what he saw as a family-driven narrative that doubled as horror and drama, "It's horror, but it's more than that," Scorsese said of Aster's feature-length debut. "For me, when you take the horror out, it still works. But the horror elements, how should I say this — they shock you in a good way. They shock you into an awakening of the real pain of these people."
In my review of the film, I called Ari Aster’s “Hereditary” a “game-changing masterpiece.”