In all fairness, The Whale came out during a very busy winter at the box office and there’s sort of more scope for that in the US, which could be why it had a different release date in the UK. It wasn’t just the A24 film that fell foul to this as Puss In Boots The Last Wish, Babylon and The Fabelmans were also shunted to early 2023 despite coming out in the States before the New Year. Post-COVID nervousness and the impact of Avatar 2 both probably contributed to it as well as the differences in audiences. You get a pretty stark taste of this in the trailer below, which gets is pretty grim at times, despite its lighter notes. Horror elements mix with dark comedy and surreal circumstances. Aster’s last two films containing gory image references in the age rating notes, so it’s going to be a surprise if the Joaquin Phoenix film doesn’t follow suit. Runtime Beau Is Afraid is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of A24 and Liongate Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.85:1. The IMDb lists the story that it should win some kind of Woody Allen Award, so to speak. In that regard, it's notable that Aster and several of the other talking heads

in the making of featurette go to some lengths to assure the potential viewer that this is a horror comedy, but if it is, a lot of the humor But even aside and apart from some of these aforementioned ultra outré elements, it's the film's climax that provides the biggest All of this is adding up to a lot of potential for the DVD, Blu-ray and digital release date. Ari Aster has been quietly cementing himself as one of the must-watch auteur director writers in the industry at the moment, and Beau Is Afraid looks set to take this to a whole new level. The Beau Is Afraid age rating for the UK will be confirmed by the British Board of Film Classification when we get a little closer to the release date. However, we can take a lot from the trailer and Ari Aster’s previous films, Midsommar and Hereditary. RELATED: Beau Is Afraid comes with a fantastic looking 1080p HD transfer on Blu-ray. The color palette looks delicious and covers the complete rainbow spectrum of color in its three-hour runtime.

Looking at Ari Aster’s last film, Midsommar, it had a gap of over two months for early access digital and 3 months for everything else in North America. This implies that the early access release in the UK will be on the longer side of the spectrum and that the August prediction is still in contention. North America release date latest realism with supposedly more realistic psychological elements. That odd combo platter contributes to the results being increasingly gonzo as the If Beau Is Afraid does come out in April 2023 it should then get a DVD, Blu-ray and digital release date in the UK around August later in the year. This will be just in time to land for a little of the summer holiday movie market if it does well at the box office. Age rating and parents guide the salient caveat that the Groening enterprise does not offer an additional "surprise" in the attic awaiting Beau.

We’ll get the official details for the special features and extras that are bundled with the Blu-ray, 4K and digital versions of the film as we get closer to the US release date for home media. However, looking at Ari Aster’s previous work there isn’t usually much to talk about. dystopian urban environment surrounding it, but later in the film when he encounters Roger and Grace, things can become almost candy colored and

Suffice it to say that Ari Aster in the same making of featurette mentions this as his "dream project", which may in fact be a more Freudian allusion statement to the audience that "I want to put you in the experience of being a loser," which The Forward alleged at least subliminally than he perhaps intended. What is one supposed to make of the relationship between a harridan mother like Mona (Patti LuPone, leaving