“Auteur is a term used to describe an artist, usually a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work; in other words, a person equivalent to an author of a novel or a play.”

Ari Aster is a noteworthy auteur that started his career with a handful of short films, but reaching his feature film directional debut with hereditary (2018) and later Midsommar (2019). Despite only having two feature-length films, Aster has made a significant impact on the horror genre.

His talents lie in capturing bewitching cinematography, slow burning yet effective horror and engaging stories. often subverting horror standards to a really amazing effect. i.e, trope of horror in darkness is subverted by the light in Midsommar.