https://www.cnet.com/news/hereditary-director-ari-aster-canned-8-scripts-before-striking-horror-gold-toni-collette/

Since he was 12, Ari Aster has been a horror addict. He exhausted the horror section of every video store he could find, dreaming of making his own movies one day. Now, eight failed script attempts later, Aster has his monster.

Hereditary, a supernatural horror film about a suburban family's descent into hell, is Aster's name-making entry into directing, a subject for which he achieved a Master of Fine Arts at the American Film Institute Conservatory in 2010.