WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Beau Is Afraid, Hereditary, & Midsommar!

Beau Is Afraid. The film follows the socially undeveloped and chronically paranoid Beau on an unusual odyssey to return home for his overbearing mother's funeral.

While Beau Is Afraid might be a step away from the immersive horrific atmospheres of Hereditary and Midsommar, the film achieves a pervasive sense of anxiety that is impossible to escape during its three-hour runtime. Beau Is Afraid focuses more on the internal fears of the protagonist instead of the external horrors that the main characters must face, creating a very innovative type of horror film that deviates common genre tropes and conventional narrative structures. Beau Is Afraid lacks disturbing images and graphic jump scares in comparison to Hereditary and Midsommar, but all three Aster films offer some incredibly shocking moments that are difficult to forget or turn away from.

10 Beau Is Afraid: Attic Penis Monster

The strangest scene in Beau Is Afraid has to be in his mother's attic when Beau encounters an enormous penis monster. Jeeves tracks him and bursts through the window, stabbing the monstrous testicles before the penis monster kills Jeeves by stabbing him in the head. The monster is meant to be Beau's father, or at least represent him somehow. Beau is terrified by the thing, as he is most things throughout the outrageous movie, quickly grappling on the floor away from it before his mother lets him come back down from the attic. It's difficult to say which Aster attic scene is most disturbing.

9 Hereditary: Peter Breaks Nose On Desk

In Hereditary, Peter, played by Alex Wolff, begins to get possessed by a demonic entity while in class at school. His teacher thinks he's raising his hand to answer a question when his body is unwillingly being taken over by the dark force. His teacher and classmates ask if he can breathe, wondering if he might be having a seizure. Peter's face is contorted, with one eye red and bulging, until he suddenly slams his face on his desk, breaking his nose. After the impact, Peter jumps back in terror, screaming as if he's just woken up from a nightmare, not appearing to know where he is or what just happened to him.

8 Midsommar: Dani Smiles As The Temple Burns

The final scene in Midsommar is extremely chilling, as Dani smiles eerily after her former boyfriend is burned alive in a temple alongside the stuffed carcasses of her other friends that she came with. Dani appears happy for the first time in the movie after suffering a horrific family tragedy and relying too heavily on her boyfriend, Christian, for emotional . The smile is unjustifiable and shows a break from reality in Dani, whose being celebrated and showered in love by the cultists. In this way, she finds a new family and life, and the fire symbolizes the destruction of her haunted past.

7 Beau Is Afraid: Beau's Sex Kills Elaine

In Beau Is Afraid, adult Beau finally reaches his mom's house to attend her funeral and is shocked to meet adult Elaine there. Elaine gave Beau his first kiss on a cruise ship and told Beau never to forget her. Beau didn't, and once Elaine recognized him, they went to his mom's bedroom to have sex. Beau is terrified of sex, believing that he will die once he ejaculates because his mother told him that's how his father and grandfather died. Beau finishes and realizes that his orgasm didn't kill Elaine, making him realize his mom had lied to him all along. Elaine climaxes and dies on top of Beau, a shocking turn of events that leads to Beau's mom revealing that she's still alive.

6 Hereditary: Steve Lights On Fire

In Hereditary, Annie begs her husband, Steve, to throw their daughter Charlie's sketchbook into the fire. She kisses Steve after she pours gasoline on the sketchbook, telling him she loves him, but Steve refuses, saying she's sick and he will call the police. Annie throws the book in for him, which engulfs Steve in flames. Annie is left to watch Steve burn alive, which she could have prevented because she knew that trying to burn the sketchbook would have demonic consequences. Annie's sleeve caught on fire the first time she tried to burn it, yet she pleaded with Steve to do it for her.

5 Midsommar: Dani Screaming After Christian Sex Scene

Dani realizes Christian is participating in a strange sex ritual with some cultists, witnessing it for herself through a keyhole. She starts to break down emotionally, falling to her knees and puking in the dirt. Some cultists take her back to the barn, where they embrace her and wail alongside her. The group screaming continues for over two minutes, occurring simultaneously, as the equally strange group moaning sounds from the sex ritual, creating an atmosphere of pure confusion and despair.

4 Beau Is Afraid: Toni Drinks Paint

In Beau Is Afraid, Grace and Roger's daughter Toni tries to paint over her deceased army brother's preserved bedroom walls, sick of her parent's inability to cope with his death. Beau stops her from tarnishing the room, which only enrages Toni further. She tells Beau to drink the paint with her, which a bumbling Beau refuses to do. Toni proceeds to call him cruel names and proceeds to drink the paint, which kills her moments later. Grace rushes into the room and desperately tries to give Toni R to no avail before ordering Jeeves, a psychotic war veteran, to kill Beau.

3 Hereditary: Annie's Possession In The Attic

In Hereditary, Peter finds his dad's body burnt to a crisp by the fireplace. Suddenly his possessed mom appears from a dark corner of the room and chases him up to the attic. Peter locks himself up there, thinking he's safe, as the possessed Annie bangs her head on the ceiling against the attic door, somehow defying the laws of physics. Peter begs her to stop, and the banging finally stops. Then, Peter discovers a strange ritual on the attic floor, thinking he's having a nightmare. He looks up to see the horrific image of the possessed Annie levitating at the top of the house, stabbing herself in the neck.

2 Midsommar: Cultists Jump Off Cliff

In Midsommar, things get weird when an old woman jumps off a cliff and smashes her face into a rock below after staring at Dani from above. Dani and her American friends react in sheer horror, while the cultists expect it as part of one of their nonsensical rituals. An old man follows her to the edge and jumps, despite the pleas from Dani's friends. The man shatters his leg to the point of barely hanging off his body. Another cultist uses a giant gavel to smash the old man's head, killing him instantly. More cultists clobber the man's head in, although he is obviously dead.

1 Hereditary: Charlie Is Decapitated

The most shocking Ari Aster moment belongs to Charlie's decapitation scene in Hereditary. Peter is speeding on a dark road driving to a hospital with Charlie suffocating in the back seat, grabbing her throat and kicking her legs. Charlie rolls the window down and leans her head out, gasping for air, which offers some relief. Suddenly, a dead animal in the road forces Peter to swerve to his right, accidentally causing Charlie's head to connect with a telephone pole. Charlie is in shock and continues driving home without seeing the damage done. Ari Aster's most shocking cinematic moment is a gruesome shot of Charlie's head covered in ants on a freeway.