March 29, 2024

Courtney Howard // Film Critic

Bet you had no idea world-renowned comedian Jordan Peele wrote and directed a movie. Bet you also didn’t know it’s not a comedy – it’s a scary as f*ck horror film. Or maybe you did and didn’t bother to tell us. Either way, you’re excited to see what the heck GET OUT is all about.

Atmosphere is at an all times high – as are the visuals. Creeps, thrills, scares are sure to abound. Me thinks this is partially inspired by Peele’s relationship with (now wife) Chelsea Peretti, but that’s just me speculating.

Here are the official deets:

In Universal Pictures’ Get Out, a speculative thriller from Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series and The Gift) and the mind of Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.

Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods).

At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

Equal parts gripping thriller and provocative commentary, Get Out is written and directed by Peele (Key and Peele) and produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, as well as Sean McKittrick (Donnie Darko, The Box), Peele and Edward H. Hamm Jr. (The Box, Bad Words).  The film also stars Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men series), Milton “Lil Rel” Howery (The Carmichael Show), Betty Gabriel (The Purge: Election Year), Marcus Henderson (Pete’s Dragon) and Keith Stanfield (Straight Outta Compton).

We’re almost out of a really good year for horror films, so it’s thrilling there will be more frights awaiting us in the new year.

GET OUT opens on February 24, 2017.

GET OUT poster

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