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Chris (Kaluuya) goes with his girlfriend Rose (Williams) to meet her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford), for the first time. Already anxious that her white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the neighborhood... Missy and Dean's unusually docile black servants, the predominantly white suburb, and (most alarmingly) the fact that multiple black men have gone missing in the area under mysterious circumstances.
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Chris (Kaluuya) goes with his girlfriend Rose to meet her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean, Dean (Bradley Whitford), for the first time. Already anxious that her white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the neighborhood... Missy and Dean's unusually docile black servants, the predominantly white suburb, and (most alarmingly) the fact that multiple black men have gone missing in the area under mysterious circumstances. When one of the missing men appears and tells Chris to [[TitleDrop get out]], he stumbles onto a strange conspiracy in the town, and finds getting out is much harder than it seems...
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''Get Out'' is a 2017 Horror horror film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele of [[Series/KeyandPeele Key and Peele]], Creator/JordanPeele, starring Creator/DanielKaluuya (Film/{{Sicario}}) and Creator/AllisonWilliams (Series/{{Girls}})
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* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: A mere ''camera flash from a mobile phone'' can allow the people who are possessed to briefly regain control of their bodies. It's ''possible'' that [[MadScientist Dean]] didn't know this until it was revealed at the party.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: A mere ''camera flash from a mobile phone'' can allow the people who are possessed to briefly regain control of their bodies. It's ''possible'' that [[MadScientist Dean]] didn't know this until it was revealed at the party.]]
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* FacialHorror: Very minor example, but [[spoiler:after the secret of the Armitage servants are revealed, we later see the surgery scars on their foreheads.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:''What becomes of Andre?'']] May double as FridgeHorror.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Arguably, the quick shot of [[spoiler: Rose aiming a rifle. While not explicitly a spoiler, she has changed her hair and looks deadly serious. Which would indicate she's not as innocent as she appears...]]
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* MindScrew: The trailer sets the movie up as a straight-forward suburban thriller...until about halfway through when it breaks out people-eating furniture and living deer skeletons.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Chris is worried that Rose's parents won't approve of him because he's black. He's very, ''very'' right. [[spoiler:Or rather, he's wrong... [[PositiveDiscrimination for all of]] [[GrandTheftMe the wrong reasons]].]]
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Downplayed. The first characters to die are black, but Chris lives through the movie [[spoiler:and survives the ending.]]
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* TheSociopath: While we have some profoundly evil bad guys, [[spoiler: Rose underneath her nice girl persona is disturbingly empty and serene, responsible for the fates of a lot of innocent people. Even after she's the last of her family standing, she seems to not even care about their deaths on any level, even after seeing her brother's corpse.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The police officer who shows up the end is none other than Rodney, who immediately realizes that Chris apparently murdering Rose is truly a case of NotWhatItLooksLike and helps him get away with it.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: Rodney immediately starts getting bad vibes from Rose's family even though he's never met them. [[spoiler:It's why he eventually decides to follow Chris to make sure he's okay after not getting a call from him in a while.]]
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* EverythingIsRacist: Low-key PlayedForDrama -- Chris starts to wonder which of the weekend's uncomfortable events are really all that weird (whether due to prejudice or something worse) and whether they're just manifestations of his own sensitivity and discomfort. Rose insists that her family are awkward and unhip, but not actually ''racist'' or even conservative. [[spoiler:Rose is using this ambiguity to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight Chris]] into mistrusting his own intuition until it's too late.]]
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Rose's grandmother and grandfather, smarmy mind-control cultists with a downright eugenicist bent. By extension, the merely middle-aged host bodies they've taken over, whose quaint mannerisms just come across creepy.]]
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* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: [[spoiler:Rose's grandmother and grandfather, acting as a BigBadDuumvirate.]]
** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Missy -- EvilMatriarch turned hypnotist.]]
** EvilGenius: [[spoiler:Dean -- respectable neurosurgeon by day, MadScientist by night.]]
** TheBrute: [[spoiler:Jeremy -- poker-wielding, physically aggressive AxeCrazy, who does the family's dirty work.]]
** DarkChick: [[spoiler:[[WalkingSpoiler Rose]] -- who acts as TheVamp with her "[=WASPy=] NiceGirl" persona as a facade.]]
** BigBad: [[spoiler:Rose's grandmother and grandfather, acting as a BigBadDuumvirate.]]
** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Missy -- EvilMatriarch turned hypnotist.]]
** EvilGenius: [[spoiler:Dean -- respectable neurosurgeon by day, MadScientist by night.]]
** TheBrute: [[spoiler:Jeremy -- poker-wielding, physically aggressive AxeCrazy, who does the family's dirty work.]]
** DarkChick: [[spoiler:[[WalkingSpoiler Rose]] -- who acts as TheVamp with her "[=WASPy=] NiceGirl" persona as a facade.]]
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''Get Out'' is a 2017 Horror film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele of [[Series/KeyandPeele Key and Peele]], starring Creator/DanielKaluuya (Film/{{Sicario}}) and Creator/AllisonWilliams (Series/{{Girls}})
Chris (Kaluuya) goes with his girlfriend Rose to meet her parents, Missy and Dean, for the first time. Already anxious that her white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the neighborhood... Missy and Dean's unusually docile black servants, the predominantly white suburb, and (most alarmingly) the fact that multiple black men have gone missing in the area under mysterious circumstances. When one of the missing men appears and tells Chris to [[TitleDrop get out]], he stumbles onto a strange conspiracy in the town, and finds getting out is much harder than it seems...
!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AFeteWorseThanDeath: Rose brings Chris back home to meet her family on the weekend of a sinister get-together held at the house.
* ArcWords: From the trailer: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".
** From the film itself, variations on "just like one of the family".
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The ultimate fate of the original inhabitants of the Armitage family servants' bodies. Their consciousness has been overwritten by their new masters'... but not completely. There's still a ''sliver'' of the original host left -- enough to feel horror and disgust, but completely helpless and forced to witness everything that happens to them.]]
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:The Armitage family groundskeeper, in a brief moment of lucidity; see AndIMustScream, above.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Armitages, who sincerely want to be seen as gracious hosts and enlightened liberals but end up showing their true colors despite themselves. Their son Jeremy shows his true colors [[PsychopathicManchild faster than most.]] [[spoiler:His sister Rose is one of these ''and then some'', with a side of BlackWidow.]]
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Possibly Rose Armitage, judging from the shot of her with a [[BlackWidow former girlfriend]] in her shoebox of trophies.]] If so, both evil and bi, but not a DepravedBisexual.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Chris is likely hiding from authorities, but they have no idea he has any link to Rose's death, and he retains his free will.]]
* ContrivedClumsiness: Implied to be how Chris' phone keeps getting unplugged. [[spoiler:Later, Rose "misplacing" her car keys. Both are subversions, as both turn out to be deliberate sabotage by her.]]
* CreepyHousekeeper: Georgina, who's tidier and more attractive than most examples of this trope but still deeply ''off''.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Rodney has bad vibes about Chris' visit from the get-go and suspects something off about Rose's family. Given his personality, however, he rambles about [[SexSlave sex slavery and Jeffrey Dahmer.]] [[spoiler: Horrifyingly, he's about 25% right on that, given what the Armitages are using their new healthy bodies for.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Averted. The film seems like it's going there in its last scene, when a police car appears just as Chris is [[NotWhatItLooksLike standing over his pleading white girlfriend's bloodied body, right next to a corpse and a gun]] -- but the person behind the wheel is [[TheCavalry Rodney]].]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Rose]].
* FightingFromTheInside: When Chris confronts [[spoiler:the housekeeper Georgina,]] her face and voice are [[BrokenSmile superficially reassuring]] but her mannerisms (and the tears in her eyes) suggest this trope.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The cop's treatment of Chris when the couple is pulled over (demanding to see Chris's license despite the fact Rose was driving) sets up the racism Chris faces in the town.
** The deer Chris and Rose hit in the beginning also foreshadows the weird deer-skeleton monster that attacks Chris in the trailer. (In the film itself, the deer monster is absent, but the initial encounter sure does foreshadow [[spoiler:how Chris finally defeats Dean: he gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice using a taxidermy stag's head. Sometimes you hit the deer, and sometimes the deer hits you.]])
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Rose's grandmother and grandfather, smarmy mind-control cultists with a downright eugenicist bent. By extension, the merely middle-aged host bodies they've taken over, whose quaint mannerisms just come across creepy.]]
* FormerFriendsPhoto: In a manner of speaking. [[spoiler:Chris finds a shoebox full of photographic evidence that not only was he ''not'' Rose's first black boyfriend -- quite the opposite -- but Rose's former partners include the same men and women her family then proceeded to enslave.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Lil Rel Howery plays a TSA agent who's friends with Chris and Rose, and later helps them unravel the mysteries surrounding the town.
* GetOut: Shouted by Andre at Chris. Doubles as a TitleDrop. [[spoiler:He's trying to save Chris from his AndIMustScream situation.]]
* HellIsThatNoise: [[SinisterScrapingSound A metal teaspoon scraping against a porcelain teacup]], courtesy of Missy. (In the pre-credits scene, the muffled sound of Noel Gay's "Run, Rabbit, Run".)
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Chris is worried Rose's parents won't approve of her dating a black guy like him. If the trailer is anything to go by, he's ''very'' right...
* MindControl: Missy is rather...''adamant''...about trying hypnosis on Chris.
* MindScrew: The trailer sets the movie up as a straight-forward suburban thriller...until about halfway through when it breaks out people-eating furniture and living deer skeletons.
* MoodWhiplash: ''To the hilt,'' due to the film's use of comedy to resolve (and sometimes ratchet up) tension.
** In the ColdOpen, the scene of a man apologizing into his cellphone for getting lost in the world's most confusingly-named suburb abruptly transitions into the same man being stalked by a car blaring a creepy tune and then violently abducted.
** Cutting from Chris' breathless RoaringRampageOfRevenge to [[spoiler:Rose in her bedroom]] killing time [[ADateWithRosiePalms image-searching hot guys]] and drinking a glass of milk through a comically prissy straw.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Not within the film itself but built into [[spoiler:the Armitage family's]] evil plan. [[spoiler:They insist their organization targets black people not out of hostility, but out of admiration because black people are naturally better at sports, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better in bed]], more artistic, and so on -- which is transparently still ''extremely'' racist.]]
* {{Profiling}}: Chris is visibly uncomfortable around the police officer, who asks for his ID even though he wasn't driving.
* PsychicNosebleed: Andre has one when he struggles to break free of his MindControl.
* ProperlyParanoid: Chris is worried that Rose's parents won't approve of him because he's black. He's very, ''very'' right. [[spoiler:Or rather, he's wrong... [[PositiveDiscrimination for all of]] [[GrandTheftMe the wrong reasons]].]]
* TearsOfFear: Chris. (Featuring prominently in the film's marketing, too.)
* ShoutOut:
** The setup of Rose's parents not knowing her boyfriend is black is reminiscent of ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.
** The trailer's ArcWords ("A mind is a terrible thing to waste") are the slogan for the [[https://uncf.org United Negro College Fund]], an organization which provides college scholarships for African Americans and other minorities.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The film has some extremely funny sequences... and some [[NightmareFuel extremely scary ones,]] often in rapid succession. Like ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', it's definitely a horror film first and foremost.
* StealthParody: Has heavy elements of this (which is to be expected from the Writer/Director).
* StepfordSmiler: The few black people in Rose's parents' community. The missing man acts a bit like this before snapping out of it and warning Chris to leave, implying he was under MindControl. Peele himself has drawn comparisons to ''The Stepford Wives''.
* StepfordSuburbia: A seemingly-idyllic suburb...with a history of black men vanishing without a trace.
* WeakenedByTheLight: [[spoiler:Chris' camera flash can allow the people who are possessed to briefly regain control of their bodies.]]
* WhamLine:
** ''"Let me do it."'' [[spoiler:'''[[TheDogBitesBack *BLAM*]]''']]
* WhamShot: Rose desperately pleading for help over the telephone. [[spoiler:Only for the camera to show her on the other end of the line completely composed, with an expressionless face.]]
* TheWhitestBlackGuy: PlayedForDrama; Andre's dress and mannerisms (such as giving Chris a handshake when Chris goes for a fist-bump) are the first hint something's not quite right with him. And that's before he starts screaming at Chris to get out.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Chris' girlfriend is white, and his race proves to be something her family doesn't approve of. Rather than overt hostility, however, their discomfort escalates from warm well-meaning awkwardness and name-dropping black celebrities, to casually racist comments about Chris' "genetic makeup" predisposing him to certain sports, to [[spoiler:mind control, torture, and attempted murder.]]
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Chris (Kaluuya) goes with his girlfriend Rose to meet her parents, Missy and Dean, for the first time. Already anxious that her white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the neighborhood... Missy and Dean's unusually docile black servants, the predominantly white suburb, and (most alarmingly) the fact that multiple black men have gone missing in the area under mysterious circumstances. When one of the missing men appears and tells Chris to [[TitleDrop get out]], he stumbles onto a strange conspiracy in the town, and finds getting out is much harder than it seems...
!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AFeteWorseThanDeath: Rose brings Chris back home to meet her family on the weekend of a sinister get-together held at the house.
* ArcWords: From the trailer: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".
** From the film itself, variations on "just like one of the family".
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The ultimate fate of the original inhabitants of the Armitage family servants' bodies. Their consciousness has been overwritten by their new masters'... but not completely. There's still a ''sliver'' of the original host left -- enough to feel horror and disgust, but completely helpless and forced to witness everything that happens to them.]]
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:The Armitage family groundskeeper, in a brief moment of lucidity; see AndIMustScream, above.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Armitages, who sincerely want to be seen as gracious hosts and enlightened liberals but end up showing their true colors despite themselves. Their son Jeremy shows his true colors [[PsychopathicManchild faster than most.]] [[spoiler:His sister Rose is one of these ''and then some'', with a side of BlackWidow.]]
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Possibly Rose Armitage, judging from the shot of her with a [[BlackWidow former girlfriend]] in her shoebox of trophies.]] If so, both evil and bi, but not a DepravedBisexual.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Chris is likely hiding from authorities, but they have no idea he has any link to Rose's death, and he retains his free will.]]
* ContrivedClumsiness: Implied to be how Chris' phone keeps getting unplugged. [[spoiler:Later, Rose "misplacing" her car keys. Both are subversions, as both turn out to be deliberate sabotage by her.]]
* CreepyHousekeeper: Georgina, who's tidier and more attractive than most examples of this trope but still deeply ''off''.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Rodney has bad vibes about Chris' visit from the get-go and suspects something off about Rose's family. Given his personality, however, he rambles about [[SexSlave sex slavery and Jeffrey Dahmer.]] [[spoiler: Horrifyingly, he's about 25% right on that, given what the Armitages are using their new healthy bodies for.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Averted. The film seems like it's going there in its last scene, when a police car appears just as Chris is [[NotWhatItLooksLike standing over his pleading white girlfriend's bloodied body, right next to a corpse and a gun]] -- but the person behind the wheel is [[TheCavalry Rodney]].]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Rose]].
* FightingFromTheInside: When Chris confronts [[spoiler:the housekeeper Georgina,]] her face and voice are [[BrokenSmile superficially reassuring]] but her mannerisms (and the tears in her eyes) suggest this trope.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The cop's treatment of Chris when the couple is pulled over (demanding to see Chris's license despite the fact Rose was driving) sets up the racism Chris faces in the town.
** The deer Chris and Rose hit in the beginning also foreshadows the weird deer-skeleton monster that attacks Chris in the trailer. (In the film itself, the deer monster is absent, but the initial encounter sure does foreshadow [[spoiler:how Chris finally defeats Dean: he gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice using a taxidermy stag's head. Sometimes you hit the deer, and sometimes the deer hits you.]])
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Rose's grandmother and grandfather, smarmy mind-control cultists with a downright eugenicist bent. By extension, the merely middle-aged host bodies they've taken over, whose quaint mannerisms just come across creepy.]]
* FormerFriendsPhoto: In a manner of speaking. [[spoiler:Chris finds a shoebox full of photographic evidence that not only was he ''not'' Rose's first black boyfriend -- quite the opposite -- but Rose's former partners include the same men and women her family then proceeded to enslave.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Lil Rel Howery plays a TSA agent who's friends with Chris and Rose, and later helps them unravel the mysteries surrounding the town.
* GetOut: Shouted by Andre at Chris. Doubles as a TitleDrop. [[spoiler:He's trying to save Chris from his AndIMustScream situation.]]
* HellIsThatNoise: [[SinisterScrapingSound A metal teaspoon scraping against a porcelain teacup]], courtesy of Missy. (In the pre-credits scene, the muffled sound of Noel Gay's "Run, Rabbit, Run".)
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Chris is worried Rose's parents won't approve of her dating a black guy like him. If the trailer is anything to go by, he's ''very'' right...
* MindControl: Missy is rather...''adamant''...about trying hypnosis on Chris.
* MindScrew: The trailer sets the movie up as a straight-forward suburban thriller...until about halfway through when it breaks out people-eating furniture and living deer skeletons.
* MoodWhiplash: ''To the hilt,'' due to the film's use of comedy to resolve (and sometimes ratchet up) tension.
** In the ColdOpen, the scene of a man apologizing into his cellphone for getting lost in the world's most confusingly-named suburb abruptly transitions into the same man being stalked by a car blaring a creepy tune and then violently abducted.
** Cutting from Chris' breathless RoaringRampageOfRevenge to [[spoiler:Rose in her bedroom]] killing time [[ADateWithRosiePalms image-searching hot guys]] and drinking a glass of milk through a comically prissy straw.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Not within the film itself but built into [[spoiler:the Armitage family's]] evil plan. [[spoiler:They insist their organization targets black people not out of hostility, but out of admiration because black people are naturally better at sports, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better in bed]], more artistic, and so on -- which is transparently still ''extremely'' racist.]]
* {{Profiling}}: Chris is visibly uncomfortable around the police officer, who asks for his ID even though he wasn't driving.
* PsychicNosebleed: Andre has one when he struggles to break free of his MindControl.
* ProperlyParanoid: Chris is worried that Rose's parents won't approve of him because he's black. He's very, ''very'' right. [[spoiler:Or rather, he's wrong... [[PositiveDiscrimination for all of]] [[GrandTheftMe the wrong reasons]].]]
* TearsOfFear: Chris. (Featuring prominently in the film's marketing, too.)
* ShoutOut:
** The setup of Rose's parents not knowing her boyfriend is black is reminiscent of ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.
** The trailer's ArcWords ("A mind is a terrible thing to waste") are the slogan for the [[https://uncf.org United Negro College Fund]], an organization which provides college scholarships for African Americans and other minorities.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The film has some extremely funny sequences... and some [[NightmareFuel extremely scary ones,]] often in rapid succession. Like ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', it's definitely a horror film first and foremost.
* StealthParody: Has heavy elements of this (which is to be expected from the Writer/Director).
* StepfordSmiler: The few black people in Rose's parents' community. The missing man acts a bit like this before snapping out of it and warning Chris to leave, implying he was under MindControl. Peele himself has drawn comparisons to ''The Stepford Wives''.
* StepfordSuburbia: A seemingly-idyllic suburb...with a history of black men vanishing without a trace.
* WeakenedByTheLight: [[spoiler:Chris' camera flash can allow the people who are possessed to briefly regain control of their bodies.]]
* WhamLine:
** ''"Let me do it."'' [[spoiler:'''[[TheDogBitesBack *BLAM*]]''']]
* WhamShot: Rose desperately pleading for help over the telephone. [[spoiler:Only for the camera to show her on the other end of the line completely composed, with an expressionless face.]]
* TheWhitestBlackGuy: PlayedForDrama; Andre's dress and mannerisms (such as giving Chris a handshake when Chris goes for a fist-bump) are the first hint something's not quite right with him. And that's before he starts screaming at Chris to get out.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Chris' girlfriend is white, and his race proves to be something her family doesn't approve of. Rather than overt hostility, however, their discomfort escalates from warm well-meaning awkwardness and name-dropping black celebrities, to casually racist comments about Chris' "genetic makeup" predisposing him to certain sports, to [[spoiler:mind control, torture, and attempted murder.]]
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-->''A mind is a terrible thing to waste. A mind is a terrible thing to waste...''
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