At the premiere of Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid, the writer-director thanked the studio, A24, for being "stupid enough" to fund it, Ednews reports citing BBC.
You can see where he was coming from. That's not to say that the film is bad – in many respects, it's brilliant – but no one will watch it without asking how he got to make such a mind-blowing, genre-bending, bladder-testing three-hour sprawl of Oedipal angst, despair and absurdist black comedy, with no conventional plot or character development.
His previous arthouse horror dramas, Hereditary and Midsommar, may have been strange, but Beau Is Afraid is certain to rank as one of the most bizarre films of the year.