Writer/director Ari Aster shocked audiences at Sundance and SXSW with his extreme supernatural creeper, Hereditary. While it’s Aster’s first feature film, a short he produced in 2011 proves he’s no stranger to conveying PTSD-inducing tales of family dysfunction. The Strange Things About the Johnsons might be tame on the gore meter, and slow-burn is the name of the game, but it goes to some dark places many simply won’t have the stomach to visit.
While there’s not much that’s NSFW, there are very mature themes, making The Strange Thing About the Johnsons very inappropriate for younger viewers. If you accept the challenge, let us know what you think in the Comments section.
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Below the short film, you can see the trailer and synopsis for Hereditary, arriving in theaters on June 8th.
Official Synopsis: A dark domestic melodrama/satire about the ties that bind and the ties that really bind.
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons stars Billy Mayo, Brandon Greenhouse, and Angela Bullock.
Official Synopsis: When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun their sinister fate.
