Beau Is Afraid

2023 - 1 - 10

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The First Trailer For Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid Has Us Tripping (Esquire.com)

If you've been paying attention to the horror genre in the past five years, you probably know who Ari Aster is. He's the brilliant director with the sick, ...

In the Beau Is Afraid trailer, Aster plays tricks on our eyes, keeping us from being able to decipher any sort of linear story. Aster isn't the type to put all his cards on the table. If you've been paying attention to the horror genre in the past five years, you probably know who Ari Aster is.

The Universe Is Conspiring Against Joaquin Phoenix in Beau Is Afraid (Vulture)

The trailer for the 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' director's new film, 'Beau Is Afraid,' arrived January 10. Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, ...

But he’s got bigger problems than a “Best of Hawaii & Ireland” TV dinner consisting of frozen seaweed, peas, mangos, and probably mashed potatoes and pharmaceuticals. The doctor (Nathan Lane) holds him hostage until he makes his great escape — an odyssey through a surrealist forest that promises his “adventures will continue for years and years.” [Beau Is Afraid](https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/ari-aster-beau-is-afraid-joaquin-phoenix-release-date-trailer.html), the new thriller from Hereditary and Midsommer director [Ari Aster](https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/ari-aster-midsommar-interview.html), arrives in theaters April 21. Beau (played by

The Beau Is Afraid trailer sees Joaquin Phoenix in psychedelic misery (The A.V. Club)

Ari Aster's new film Beau Is Afraid stars Joaquin Phoenix alongside Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Parker Posey, and more.

The film is scheduled to hit theaters on April 21. [Aster directed a short film](https://www.avclub.com/hooked-on-hereditary-s-spooky-power-check-out-director-1826571644) in 2011 simply called “Beau,” which was available on YouTube until relatively recently. The first trailer for Beau Is Afraid teases some tense family relationships, generational curses, kidnappings, and psychedelic imagery—in short, it looks like an Ari Aster joint.

Beau is Afraid trailer: Joaquin Phoenix, Midsommar's Ari Aster get ... (Polygon)

In the new trailer for Hereditary director Ari Aster's new A24 horror movie, Joaquin Phoenix plays Beau who's trapped in horror hell trying to see his mom.

Once again released by A24, Beau Is Afraid centers on Beau (Joaquin Phoenix), a paranoid man in the midst of traveling to see his mother. Of course those journeys rarely have the same bizzaro animated vision of Ari Aster ( [Midsommar](https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/2/20679113/midsommar-review-ari-aster-florence-pugh), [Hereditary](https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/8/17439056/hereditary-review-new-horror-movie)), whose new film Beau Is Afraid is centered entirely on it.

'Beau Is Afraid' Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix Fronts Ari Aster Film (Variety)

Watch the first trailer for 'Beau Is Afraid,' a new horror from Ari Aster starring Joaquin Phoenix.

[Disappointment Blvd](https://variety.com/t/disappointment-blvd/),” is Aster’s third collaborative effort with A24, following his breakout horror hits “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” which released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He will play Arthur Fleck again opposite Lady Gaga in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which is billed as a musical. [Joaquin Phoenix](https://variety.com/t/joaquin-phoenix/) stars in the film as a successful entrepreneur, and the narrative is said to follow the character across multiple decades.

'Beau is Afraid' trailer: Ari Aster's new movie is weirder than you ... (Inverse)

Ari Aster is the master of throwing a curveball — anyone who's seen the opening moments of Midsommar or that car ride scene in Hereditary can tell you that.

We know Beau is going to visit his mother, he gets run over, he wake up in a stranger’s house, and then things get ... Beau is Afraid has quite the task ahead of it. A24’s official synopsis is “A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster,” but that doesn’t help decode just what is happening either. If this movie is anything like Aster’s previous work, there’s sure to be some logical throughline tying all these disparate scenes together, but their surrealism is obvious. [Midsommar](https://www.inverse.com/article/57242-midsommar-review-ari-aster-second-horror-movie-after-hereditary-shines-with-dar) or that car ride scene in [Hereditary](https://www.inverse.com/article/45707-hereditary-review-so-good-so-scary) can tell you that. His latest film, [Beau is Afraid](https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/movies-2023-most-anticipated) (recently changed from original title Disappointment Blvd.) seems to be no different.