Beau Is Afraid is a 2023 comedy horror film written, directed, and produced by Ari Aster. It was co-produced and distributed by A24 as the company's third collaboration with Aster, after Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). The film was previously titled Disappointment Blvd.
Described by A24 as a “decades-spanning surrealist horror film set in an alternate present. The story of an extremely anxious but pleasant-looking man who has a fraught relationship with his overbearing mother and never knew his father. When his mother dies, he makes a journey home that involves some wild supernatural threats.”
The cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zoe Lister-Jones, Armen Nahapetian, with Parker Posey, and Patti LuPone.
Beau Is Afraid is set to debut in theaters April 21st, courtesy of A24. Watch the official trailer below.