History YMMV / GetOut2017

* FanonWelding: Fans theorized that the film is a StealthSequel to ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', due to both movies sharing the plot point of [[spoiler:people forcibly taking over other people's bodies]]. As Creator/CatherineKeener appeared in both films as an actress, it is also theorized that Rose Armitage is none other than Maxine from ''Being John Malkovich''. The directors of both films [[ApprovalOfGod liked the theory]].

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', due to series creator Creator/TatsukiFujimoto publicly recommending ''Get Out'' and other Jordan Peele works, along with both works featuring thematically similar villains -- specifically, [[spoiler:an apparently kind and attractive love interest who turns out to be a sociopathic ManipulativeBitch, only interested in using the protagonist's body for her own ends]].

* OlderThanTheyThink: The movie is frequently described as "''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' about race." Race is actually discussed in the original novel of ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'', where the final Stepford Wife we meet is Ruthanne, a black author (her husband, Royal, is also black) who attributes the oddness of Stepford to suburban racism until Joanna sets her right.

** The film lost the Best Musical or Comedy UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobe to ''Film/LadyBird'', although most believed the bigger snub was it even being nominated in that category rather than Best Drama, which felt more fitting.
** Some felt that it should have been the big winner at the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] instead of ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.

** Surprisingly averted by Creator/DanielKaluuya (at least with regards to getting nominated). When the movie opened at the Sundance Film Festival, it was an immediate contender for Best Picture and Original Screenplay, but many expected that Kaluuya would be snubbed. as the Academy isn't really kind to horror movie performances. However, as the awards season began and progressed, he was nominated for many major awards, culminating in a nomination for Best Actor at the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]]. He lost to Creator/GaryOldman, whose performance as UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill in ''Film/DarkestHour'' dominated the category that year.

** Just about everyone was blown away by [[spoiler:Creator/AllisonWilliams' utterly terrifying portrayal of a sociopathic monster, including quite a few demands for an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nomination.]]

** "Kalellujah," Creator/TiffanyHaddish's desperate attempt to pronounce Creator/DanielKaluuya's name while announcing his [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] nomination.

* OutOfTheGhetto: Horror movies rarely, if ever, [[SciFiGhetto do well at the Oscars]], so nearly everyone was pleasantly surprised when it was nominated for ''four'' [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], including [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestPicture Best Picture]]. This also makes Creator/JordanPeele one of only three people in ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome history]]'', after Creator/WarrenBeatty and Creator/JamesLBrooks, to be nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay in his directorial debut.

** Do the Armitages [[spoiler:still love each other despite their evilness? Was Rose and Roman's silence about the rest of the family's deaths because they never cared about them or were they in TranquilFury as they went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to kill Chris?]]

* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Rose Armitage, a seductress par excellence. Not quite worth getting your brain scooped out for, though]].
** Except for [[PsychopathicManchild Jeremy]], the rest of the Armitage family could count as well -- they're quite easy on the eyes (being played by SilverFox Creator/BradleyWhitford and the beautiful Creator/CatherineKeener).

** [[spoiler: It is possible that the reason Chris ultimately can't bring himself to choke out Rose is not so much a sentimental inability to kill the woman he had loved as it is him realizing once he starts to that she's getting off on it, so he refused to make the impending ending of her life undeservedly "happy", so to speak. Though considering what happened with Chris' mother, it would make sense for him to have a savior complex towards women. It is also possible that he decided that Rose was the kind of person who deserved his mother's fate of slowly dying alone in the middle of the street.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Everybody loves [[MemeticBadass Rod]]. For some, it's because of his awareness. Sometimes it's because of his [[spoiler:BaitAndSwitch arrival at the end of the movie]]. But mostly, it's because [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he gets the best lines]]. There's also the fact that in a horror movie like this, a mostly-comedic character like Rod [[ShooOutTheClowns would disappear halfway through the flick,]] but instead [[spoiler: Rod's skills and awareness allow him to become TheCavalry without losing his comedic edge.]] It's also important to note that Rod's character is explicitly invoking the claim many black people make/have made in film and TV that they'd NEVER do the stupid things leads in horror movies do. So Rod is, for them specifically, an AudienceSurrogate.
* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler: Rose Armitage, a seductress par excellence. Not quite worth getting your brain scooped out for, though]].

** [[spoiler: Andre breaks free of Logan [[BodySurf (the old white man whose brain controls Andre's body)]] long enough to warn Chris to [[TitleDrop get out]] after]] the flash from Chris' phone goes off accidentally. Dean, a talented neurosurgeon, then tells Chris that [[spoiler: "Logan" suffers from epilepsy, and the flash caused an epileptic episode. [[ChekhovsGun Chris does this later]] to help "Walter" break free of Roman Armitage's influence, who then shoots Rose and [[TakingYouWithMe himself before Roman reasserts control.]]]] In RealLife, neurosurgeons used to treat extreme cases [[spoiler: of epilepsy, a condition where a person goes into shock from exposure to bright flashing lights, by surgically separating the two hemispheres of the brain.]] This caused a condition called [[spoiler: Alien Hand Syndrome, whose symptoms included the patient losing control of their own hand, which then did whatever it wanted, including physically attacking the patients themselves.]]

* JerkassWoobie: While it obviously doesn't excuse their actions, which by far outweigh any sympathy they might manage to garner, it's possible to feel at least some pity for [[spoiler: the Coagula cultists, bar the Armitages themselves, as most of them do have legitimate problems, ranging from an avid golfer whose passion was [[CareerEndingInjury ruined by advanced arthritis]], to a paraplegic who wants to be able to make love to his wife again, to [[TokenMinority Hiroki Tanaka]], who is insinuated to be a victim of racism himself and is curious to see if changing his race would mitigate that]].

** Rod is not only an EnsembleDarkhorse (as listed above), but a bit of a MemeticBadass [[spoiler: for his BigDamnHeroes moment at the end of the film.]] "T-S-motherfuckin' A" indeed.

* MisaimedFandom: A number of viewers decried the twist that [[spoiler: Rose]] turned out to be a willing accomplice, right down to fan-theorizing that [[spoiler: she was also a victim of her family's hypnotism.]] Ironically, this plays right into real-life racial biases, and Creator/JordanPeele specifically invoked this in the ending.

** [[spoiler: Rose herself, before the movie even starts. She tricked several black men and women into loving her so she could lure them to her family. And if her interactions with Chris are any indication, she frequently subjected her previous victims to gaslighting, played with their emotions, and ultimately manipulated them until her family was ready to put their horrific plan into motion.]]
** [[spoiler: Grandpa Armitage crossed by creating the brain transplant scheme all because he envied black people due to [[EvilIsPetty Jesse Owens beating him out for the American track team headed to the 1936 Olympics]]]].
** [[spoiler: Watching Missy knowingly draw out painful memories of Chris's mother's death while the poor guy sits there unable to move is pretty damn hard to watch. If anything, it feels like her eventual death wasn't painful enough.]]

* SpecialEffectFailure: It's minor, but there's some obvious green screen work done on the scene where [[spoiler: Georgina and Chris crash the car]]. The [[spoiler: fire in the surgery room]] is also oddly fake-looking for a movie made in 2017.

** [[spoiler It is possible that the reason Chris ultimately can't bring himself to choke out Rose is not so much a sentimental inability to kill the woman he had loved as it is him realizing once he starts to that she's getting off on it, so he refused to make the impending ending of her life undeservedly "happy", so to speak. Though considering what happened with Chris' mother, it would make sense for him to have a savior complex towards women. It is also possible that he decided that Rose was the kind of person who deserved his mother's fate of slowly dying alone in the middle of the street.]]

** [[spoiler: It is possible that the reason Chris ultimately can't bring himself to choke out Rose is not so much a sentimental inability to kill the woman he had loved as it is him realizing once he starts to that she's getting off on it, so he refused to make the impending ending of her life undeservedly "happy", so to speak. Though considering what happened with Chris' mother, it would make sense for him to have a savior complex towards women. It is also possible that he decided that Rose was the kind of person who deserved his mother's fate of slowly dying alone in the middle of the street.]]
*** [[spoiler: On a more symbolic level, the scene visually echoes historical racist imagery of black men committing violence against "innocent" white women. Rose may be smiling because she feels Chris is succumbing to what she perceives as his "true" nature. By refusing to finish the deed, Chris is also refusing to give her the satisfaction of dying in the belief that he's a monster -- especially because none of the Armitages would have shown him the same mercy.]]

** One recurring one, which has been {{Jossed}} repeatedly, is that [[spoiler: Rose and the others]] were hypnotized themselves. They were '''not''', as confirmed by Creator/AllisonWilliams in an [[https://t.co/s0s3e83Wjp interview with Seth Meyers]] (and more or less previously on a podcast), flat out debunking the theory that [[spoiler:she (and really anyone in her family) was ever hypnotized and saying she, like the rest of her family is just a flat-out evil white supremacist. She went as far as to say she only gets the “Were you hypnotized?” question from white people who want to make excuses for her. Rose is just a cold-blooded psychopath]].[[note]]And Williams had this in mind during filming; early on, [[http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/making-get-out-jordan-peele.html she asked Peele]] "If her whole family died and she survived, would she keep doing this?" His response: “Yeah.”[[/note]] Not that any of this [[DeathOfTheAuthor stops this interpretation from being spread around.]]

** [[spoiler: Georgina]]'s death. One could say that her death after [[spoiler: attacking Chris while he tries to rescue her after Mrs. Armitage took over, leading to the car crash]] is really her taking [[spoiler: herself and Mrs. Armitage out.]]
** Though he is ultimately right about [[spoiler: the Armitage family's secret dark side]], did Rod warn Chris not to go out of genuine fear for his own safety? Or did he say that as a result of [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero his own possible]] prejudices toward white people?

** Seeing [[spoiler: Walter regain his original personality and then shoot Rose with her own gun when she hands it to him]] is utterly satisfying. In a tragic way, [[spoiler:him [[DrivenToSuicide taking himself out]] right after that]] is also this, as [[spoiler: he not only [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled frees himself of his own misery]], but also [[TakingYouWithMe rids the world of Roman]] too]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Everybody loves [[MemeticBadass Rod]]. For some, it's because of his awareness. Sometimes it's because of his [[spoiler: BaitAndSwitch arrival at the end of the movie]]. But mostly, it's because [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he gets the best lines]]. There's also the fact that in a horror movie like this, a mostly-comedic character like Rod [[ShooOutTheClowns would disappear halfway through the flick,]] but instead [[spoiler: Rod's skills and awareness allow him to become TheCavalry without losing his comedic edge.]] It's also important to note that Rod's character is explicitly invoking the claim many black people make/have made in film and TV that they'd NEVER do the stupid things leads in horror movies do. So Rod is, for them specifically, an AudienceSurrogate.

** Likewise the notorious scene where Rose is eating dry Froot Loops one by one with her hands. On paper, it sounds utterly laughable. But in the context of the rest of her extremely creepy, almost robotic behaviour after TheReveal, it manages to come off as genuinely unsettling.

* MisaimedFandom: A number of viewers decried the twist that [[spoiler: Rose]] turned out to be a willing accomplice, right down to fan-theorizing that [[spoiler: she was also a victim of her family's hypnotism.]] Ironically, this plays right into [[UnfortunateImplications real-life racial biases]], and Creator/JordanPeele specifically invoked this in the ending.

** Though he is ultimately right about [[spoiler: the Armitage family's secret dark side]], did Rod warn Chris not to go out of genuine fear for his own safety? Or did he say that as a result of [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero his own possible]] [[AcceptableEthnicTargets prejudices toward white people]]?

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', due to series creator Creator/TatsukiFujimoto publicly recommending ''Get Out'' and other Jordan Peele works, along with both works featuring thematically similar villains -- specifically, [[spoiler:an apparent love interest who turns out to be a sociopathic ManipulativeBitch who was only interested in using the protagonist's body for her own ends]].

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The film turned out to be a subversion. People were reticent to watch a horror film about a black man being targeted to be killed by white people, until the previews got out and revealed that the film attacked the PositiveDiscrimination brand of disguised racism by wealthy liberals as well as the obvious xenophobic one, which eased people worried about anvil-sized preachiness. It became one of the most successful films of 2017.

Sony Pictures spent The New Tens releasing an unhealthy amount of these: