Watch the trippy first trailer for Ari Aster’s new A24 horror Beau Is Afraid

The first trailer for Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid has landed… and it’s already looking as brilliantly trippy and out-there and we’d hoped and expected.

The new A24 movie from the Midsommar director stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Beau – who is a ‘paranoid man’ embarking ‘on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother’, according to the synopsis. A24 also promise that it’s a ‘bold and ingeniously depraved’ movie – which we have absolutely no doubt about.

Due to hit cinemas on April 21, Beau Is Afraid also features a cast including Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones and Richard Kind.

Watch the trailer below:

Next year, we’ll also get to see Joaquin Phoenix reprising his role as Arthur Fleck in the Joker sequel – which of course, as we excitedly reported, has the Fall Out Boy-referencing title Joker: Folie à Deux.

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