The short film — now scrubbed from the internet — tells us a lot about early Ari Aster and the neurotic humor that shaped Beau Is Afraid.
, Aster called his pivot to horror “a cynical decision that ended up producing a pretty personal film” — he figured it would be easier to get funding for that than for a crazed Freudian comedy stuffed with dick jokes. His next film,, laced in more of the uncomfortable “Am I supposed to be laughing right now?” humor of his early work. And that sensibility comes back full bore inAster’s knack for manipulating horrific situations to comedic effect also comes through in theshort.
By the end of the film, Beau is screaming, the man who broke into his house is bleeding, and an enigmatic, seemingly omnipotent creature called Kolgaan, Collector of Keys — revealed here as a pair of furry hands smoking a cigar over a pile of stolen keys — has triumphed. It’s a weird and funny short, taking a fear common to city dwellers and turning it into fodder for bizarre comedy.
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