Horror movies are often judged according how effectively they scare us, but the classics are almost always about more visceral thrills, and with Get Out the first time feature director Jordan Peele offers a reminder of the genre’s versatility.
Inverting suburban horror tropes, the storyline finds a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) meeting his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) parents for the first time – a visit that starts with all the awkward tension you’d spect before taking a more sinister turn. The reviews says Peele’s pulled off an audacious debut here, bleeding horror and comedy in service of a storyline whose scary elements are just one layer of intelligent, timely look at modern American race relations.
If you’re up for a frightening night out that’ll also make you laugh and make you think, critics urges you to Get Out and see this.
“The sheer dexterity is overwhelming and only the sternest viewer will be able to resist the onslaught of such thoroughly marketed magic.”
“The sheer dexterity is overwhelming and only the sternest viewer will be able to resist the onslaught of such thoroughly marketed magic.”
