Celebrated horror director Ari Aster is back with a new movie, Beau Is Afraid, and it’s now come to light that the film will continue a theme that Aster is becoming known for. Spoilers for Beau Is Afraid and Aster’s other films follow below.
Speaking to Empire, Aster confirmed that Beau Is Afraid will feature another decapitation scene. This has become Aster’s calling card, of sorts, as his 2018 film Hereditary contained multiple sequences in which characters lose their heads. 2019’s Midsommar continued this tradition, in a way, with a character bludgeoned to death with a massive hammer to the head. It’s not a decapitation, per se, but it’s still serious, life-ending head trauma. As it turns out, Aster isn’t doing this by accident–he is purposefully including decapitation scenes, and now he accepts that it’s become a running joke that he is keen to continue.
“It’s a joke at this point,” he told Empire. “I mean, it is a joke in this one. What can I say, it makes me laugh.”