Get Out has few parallels in the horror genre, but its follow-up gives it a good run for its money. As confident as directorial debuts can possibly be, the 2017 horror movie was a gem in Universal Pictures’ crown from the get-go. No one pegged the American celebrity comedian Jordan Peele for the next leader in horror, but Get Out unquestionably threw his hat into the ring. Out of every Jordan Peele movie, Get Out is probably the best, but some may find Peele’s sophomore picture more appealing for a few reasons.
Jordan Peele’s inspirations for Get Out point to Peele’s immersion in classic horror, with Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives all contributing to the heady concoction that is Get Out. Peele built on these influences to form his next movie, maintaining the high production value and deconstruction of the American dream. But his follow-up feature was a very different beast. The miraculous Us is rated only 5% lower than Get Out on Rotten Tomatoes at a brilliant 93%, but it looks at America on a far bigger scale, offering a more comprehensive vision of the U.S.
Us Is One Of The Best Psychological Horrors In Recent Memory
Jordan Peele’s Second Movie Did Not Disappoint
Impressively, Peele’s debut, with the nearly perfect Rotten Tomatoes score of 98%, was met with a worthy successor in the form of Us. The best performances in Get Out and Us are easily on par, with Daniel Kaluuya leading in Get Out and Lupita Nyong’o the star of Us. Us is one of the best psychological horrors ever made, making full use of its talented cast. The movie drops viewers into the blissful cookie-cutter existence of its charmingly down-to-earth family, which viewers can genuinely root for, before tearing it apart.
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Playing a mother, Nyongo’s character, Adelaide, serves the audience pertinent wisdom, such as the significance of Luniz’s epic 1995 track I Got Five On It. The movie buries small and relevant bursts of social commentary like this throughout, recalling Get Out’s many horror Easter eggs. But the movie’s stars are terrorized as it dives deeper into a dark, fantastical underbelly of America, where body doubles go unnoticed, waiting to take over. The movie works as a thriller and as a crystallization of some of modern society’s deepest fears and worst crimes.
How Jordan Peele’s Us Compares To Get Out
Get Out And Us Are Both Distinctly Jordan Peele Movies
Get Out and Us both show all the hallmarks of a Jordan Peele movie, but Us may be a little more conceptual. While Get Out is unbelievable as an intelligent narrative told with razor-edge focus, Us has many elements of this kind of storytelling, and also brief forays into more divergent and artistic looks at its subject matter, with a rather spectacular home invasion montage over the dulcet tones of N.W.A belting out Fuck Tha Police. But, ultimately, Us is a very different movie from Get Out, and that is mostly thematic.
Us isn’t as specifically concerned with racism, although race is never simmering far from the surface of Peele’s extraordinary scripts.
While Get Out explores a specific kind of insidious 21st-century racism, Us isn’t as specifically concerned with racism, although race is never simmering far from the surface of Peele’s extraordinary scripts. Get Out limits its focus to one family, and Us certainly seems to be about one family. However, by the end of Us, it’s clear that this movie concerns the repression of what America considers a lower class of people. As the Tethered threaten the whole world by the end, Us opens itself up into an apocalyptic nightmare crashing down on humanity in response to its oppression and repression.
Get Out
7/10
- Release Date
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February 24, 2017
- Runtime
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1 hour, 44 minutes
