Hereditary Director Was Told To Stop Writing His Own Movies After This Huge Flop

It’s Time for Ari Aster to (Respectfully) Go Back to Making Horror Movies

Ari Aster wrote and directed two incredible first feature films: Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). For his third film, Beau is Afraid (2023), Aster strayed from the horror genre and created a surrealist tragicomedy about an anxious man’s relationship with his mother. Unlike Hereditary and Midsommar, Beau is Afraid was not successful. It was a box office bomb and received mixed reviews from critics. The director recently revealed on Marc Ma…

Hereditary Director Was Told To Stop Writing His Own Movies After This Huge Flop

No one can roast you quite like your family, and that's exactly what happened to Ari Aster after one of his films flopped at the box office.

Ari Aster’s Father Advised Him To Stop Screenwriting After ‘Beau Is Afraid’ Underperformed

Washington D.C. | July 30, 2025: Filmmaker Ari Aster, known for his distinctive horror films ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Midsommar’, recently shared a candid revelation about his father’s advice following the underwhelming box office performance of his 2023 film, ‘Beau Is Afraid’. During an appearance on the ‘WTF with Marc Maron’ podcast, as reported by Variety, Aster disclosed, “When ‘Beau Is Afraid’ flopped, my dad did tell me, ‘Uh, maybe you shouldn’t …

The film starring Joaquin Phoenix was such a flop that the director's father advised him not to write another movie

The director of the film starring Joaquin Phoenix suffered such a huge failure that his father advised him against writing the script for his next film.This info The film starring Joaquin Phoenix was such a flop that the director's father advised him not to write another movie was first published on Gamepressure.com 30 July 2025.