Some things terrify pretty much everybody. We’re all freaked out by ghosts, monsters, moving shadows, creepy crawlies. There are few things more universally freaky than spiders, with their too many legs and too many eyes and penchant for scuttling and biting and web spinning. They’re spooky shorthand, always showing up in Halloween decorations and movies … Read more
Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster was disappointed by the reaction to the film, but hopes audiences will come to appreciate it in future. After the successes of Hereditary and Midsommar, A24 was keen to pump up the budget for Ari Aster’s third movie. Unfortunately, Beau Is Afraid flopped at the box office with just … Read more
Singer/songwriters Olivia Rodrigo and Phoebe Bridgers both found writer/director Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid to be really scary When JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray wrote his review of Hereditary and Midsommar writer/director Ari Aster‘s latest film Beau Is Afraid (you can read the review HERE), he struggled to figure out which genre label best described it. … Read more
Beau Is Afraid actor Armen Nahapetian has made the announcement that he is indeed not a work of artificial intelligence. Beau may be afraid, but actor Armen Nahapetian is more concerned that you think he is a work of artificial intelligence. Tea Beau Is Afraid co-star, who plays the teenage version of Joaquin Phoenix’s character, … Read more
On the morning I saw Beau Is Afraid, my wife’s keys went missing. This happens sometimes; she tends to casually drop her things in random spots when she comes in the house, then not remember where she left them when she is ready to leave again. (I keep my own set of keys in my … Read more
The director of such dark films like Hereditary and Midsommar expressed his gratitude to the studio for giving him full reign for this movie. The indie studio A24 is a force to be reckoned with. Especially since this past year, they have been responsible for the films that swept the Academy Awards with Everything Everywhere … Read more
The film’s writer/director is Ari Aster, who has always been a funny guy. His excellent, trauma-filled dramas “Hereditary” and “Midsommar” may be packed with the horror of relationships, but it’s the cruel joke underneath that provides their driving force–they are pitch-black comedies about the universal fear of losing free-will , of being screwed from the … Read more