Ari Aster has certainly made a name for himself in the modern era of horror, with his first two films, Hereditary and Midsommar, considered by some to be among the best horror movies of all time. For his third project, Aster re-teamed with A24 — which has compiled its own impressively scary collection in the genre — for the “nightmare comedy” Beau Is Afraid. The movie premiered on April 1 to an audience that thought they were seeing a director’s cut of Midsommar, before the joke was revealed and, now, those moviegoers are sharing their first impressions of Aster’s newest film following the surprise screening.
Beau Is Afraid, which was originally titled Disappointment Blvd., stars Joaquin Phoenix as Beau, who embarks on an epic and surreal odyssey home following the sudden death of his mother. The trailer teases a whole new brand of WTF, seemingly opening a violent cartoon multiverse. Let’s see what people are saying after their surprise screening.
