Girl from It Follows tied to a chair as the boy prepares to show her the creature, with a shadowy Ari Aster smiling unsettlingly in the background.
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Would Ari Aster Exist Without It Follows?

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Before Hereditary blew minds and The Witch cursed goats, It Follows quietly opened the door for the kind of horror we now call “elevated.” But without the groundwork from Adam Wingard, Ti West, and other indie risk takers, that door might never have existed.