As director Ari Aster explained earlier this week, the original cut of his Hereditary ran 3-hours long, with 30 additional scenes not present in the final cut. Aster explained, “In the original cut, and in the script, the audience was forced to really stew … The breakdown of communication was chronicled in more pummeling detail.”
“Nobody wants it to be a three-hour movie, especially the distributor,” he noted. “The most important thing was pacing and finding that rhythm. The movie tells you what it needs to be. This was the best version of the movie. But the part of you that mourns the missing scenes, tells you to announce that it was three-hours long.”
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing that 3-hour cut. In an AMA session over on Reddit today, Aster was asked if it’ll be on the DVD/Blu-ray. He answered…
“Probably not. That said, the DVD/Blu-ray will have deleted scenes.”
In Hereditary, now in theaters…
“When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star.
