Beau Is Afraid er en kommende amerikansk surrealistisk skrekkfilmkomedie skrevet, regissert og produsert av Ari Aster. Her møter vi skuespillere som Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones og Richard Kind. Filmen er co-produsert og distribuert av A24 i selskapets tredje samarbeid med Ari Aster, etter Hereditary (2018) og Midsommar (2019).

Fantastisk internasjonal presse:

“An unhinged, unfiltered, unilaterally brilliant Joaquin.”
“Patti LuPone in a role she was born to play.”
“A virtuoso piece of filmmaking.”
- Rolling Stone

“Arresting and spectacular, Ari Aster’s fearless, labyrinthine and wickedly immersive third feature.”
- The Wrap

“A sickly picaresque guilt trip. “Beau Is Afraid” delivers another morbidly hilarious — and fiercely skeptical — look at the unstable relationship between love and obligation, lineage and entrapment.”
- Indiewire

“A pitch-dark existential horror comedy. Joaquin Phoenix goes balls to the wall in a performance of astonishing intensity that holds nothing back.”
- Hollywood Reporter

“Aster’s latest is a true American original, and proof that, while the hype surrounding him may have been early, it wasn’t wrong.”
- The Daily Beast

“A dizzying but unforgettable experience.”
- RogerEbert.com

“Neck-snapping gallows humor and astonishingly well-staged set-pieces.”
- Empire

“The fact that something so singular exists and succeeds on its own terms is something to be celebrated.”
- Total Film

“Beau Is Afraid is an exercise in laughing to keep from screaming.”
- The Verge