Get Out

Jordan Peele made a horror movie, and it looks pretty weird.

He said that it was influenced by Scream and The Stepford Wives. You can kinda see it.

Weird? It's clearly seems like a dry Black Comedy (no pun intended) about sinister white people brainwashing kidnapped black people into a state of Happiness in Slavery. It's the basic scenario the polarized left imagine when Donald Trump said he had thousands of black employees in his buldings who were "happy to be there".

edited 4th Oct '16 9:30:15 PM by nervmeister

That's not the weird I speak of. The weird is the protagonist being hypnotized into seeing animate deer skeletons and stuff.

Yeah, that is kind of out of left field. I may check this one out. Seems like there could be some clever social commentary to be found.

To me it looks like a horror movie with comedic elements rather than a comedy with horror elements.

The horror elements look rather good, but the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner elements are... odd to say the least. It could easily come across as a "hat on a hat" type movie rather than Genre-Busting.

edited 4th Oct '16 11:17:47 PM by KJMackley

A really dry Black Comedy plays all the disturbing stuff as straight as possible and counts on the audience to pick up on the irony or "punchline" in the greater scope of things.

I'm actually really looking forward to this film if only because it looks legitimately terrifying with a little black comedy thrown in there.

Though I have to say so far it also looks like The Stepford Wives WITH RACISM!

WMG: Rose is on the whole sham and is pretending to be disturbed at the sight of this.....because Stepford Wives.

The Black Comedy part could be that these conspirators see it as being "progressive" in the most face-palming way possible.

edited 11th Oct '16 11:04:18 AM by nervmeister

I didn't realize the lead used to be on Skins. A fair number of those actors seem to be finding work in America.

Now with a pointedly provocative art gallery.

I had spoiler bombs dropped on me, but all they did was make me want to see the movie more.

So apparently, this film has gotten a 100% rating on RT. Not sure what to think about that.

It's an impressive achievement to be sure. I'll imagine once some mid-range critics who didn't get press screenings see it the score might drop to high 90's. Currently it only has 100 critics recorded, any significant movie will have 200+ reviews (it's not hard for obscure documentaries to get high marks with only 5 reviews total).

A friend of mine saw it, gave it high praise. I plan on seeing it when I have time.

An original horror movie that is receiving glowing reviews from critics and audience that isn't a shitty concept as Bye Bye Man. That is great to hear. Especially once you consider the fact that Jordan Peele is actually pretty good at doing horror comedy once you think about his old sketches from Key and Peele.

Hell, he starred in one that legitimately made the concept of "cock blocking" terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrpoK7Askck

It's no wonder this movie is doing great critically. I should really go see this movie.

Just saw this today, its really good. Allison Williams may give the best performance (she does some just-verbal emoting that's really good and slightly funny to watch), but everyone's good in it.

Its not amazing in any one way, but its not bad in any way either which is really a feat in and of itself.

A horror movie is basically going to take an abstract fear and make it literal. Fear of the dark, fear of weakness, fear if death, etc.

This one plays up on the fears of the target audience, and, well... *vaguely points in the direction of my avatar*.

I mean, it's obviously taken to a rather fantastical level once what's actually going on is revealed, but brain transplants aren't that bad when you consider movies that revolver around premise like a demon that kills you in your sleep, a perpetually reanimating zombie in a hockey mask, a serial killer trapped in a doll's body by voodoo, or sentient murder plants in the mist

This movie was fucking terrifying. The amount of tension that permeated the entirety of it was nuts. One of the best horror movies I've ever seen.

Got a question after reading the spoiler/browsing our page on the movie. So, is there any Word of God on inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft. Because the brain swapping comes up in at least one Lovecraft story and I'm pretty sure there was an Armitage in The Dunwich Horror and maybe other stories, with that surname being one used to designate an "old WASP family".

I'm curious because of the spoiler, because when I first heard of the movie it had sounded like a similar premise as a recent novel/short story collection called Lovecraft Country, where the title story is about a similar idea of spoilers just in case white cultists kidnapping black people- with sort of a similar idea as say Hot Fuzz in deliberately blurring the line between your standard horror movie cultists and real life white power groups like the KKK and citizens councils.

Not as far as I've seen, but it wouldn't surprise me.

The movie got an A- CinemaScore, which is very good by horror film standards.

edited 26th Feb '17 11:59:51 AM by Prowler

Unfortunately, it's lost it's 100% score. And you can thank everyone' favorite asshole for it.

This movie was amazing and at 143 reviews it's at 99 %.

The audience clapped several times in the final act because the tension was so well-built that any form of catharsis made us happy

Just got back from it and I concur. I actually haven't seem carthasis factor like this since Djjango Unchained.

And really great commentary on "casual racism" experienced every day.

Saw it, and what I really like is how tightly plotted it is. No character is expendable and ones that seem like they would fall into the mold of comic relief or two-second joke demonstrate their own agency and desire. The recurring symbolism of deer was effective at describing the situation without words and without slowing down the story so that symbols could be inserted. And no joke, I jumped a little when I got back home and accidentally clinked a cup.

Its funny because last week's episode of Riverdale had a character stirring a teacup and every reviewer who also saw this movie made mention of it.

I feel like it's about to become a Villain Defining Thing, at least in Black Movies.

Saw the movie today, very impressed with how it plays out. After Split and this film, I'm thinking that this will be the future. Auteur films with a small budget but strong stories, direction and especially excellent marketing campaigns.

Especially impressive is the cinematography, as low budgets often create very static films and that contributes to their low budget look. The camera work here is inventive and ambitious. Just the opening scene I love how quickly it establishes its premise where the car drives by and turns around, done as The Oner too. The direction was also very confident, it takes such an offbeat idea and makes it work. As mentioned, horror films work best when it plays on innate fears. You're never quite sure what is paranoia and what is obvious foreshadowing. I'll admit I was a little disappointed when the horror film elements are revealed in the second half, but the build up is often better than the resolution anyway.