Get Out
Racially charged horror from Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Ouija) starring Daniel Kaluuya (Sicario) in an Oscar-nominated performance. Along with a nomination for Best Picture and Director, Jordan Peele won an Academy Award for his original screenplay.
Now that Chris (Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). 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.
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressBlending race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele proves positively fearless - which is not at all the same thing as scareless.
Time Out
pressA horror film with the power to put a rascally grin on the face of that great genre subverter John Carpenter (They Live), Get Out has more fun playing with half-buried racial tensions than with scaring us to death.
The New York Times
pressPart of what makes "Get Out" both exciting and genuinely unsettling is how real life keeps asserting itself, scene after scene.
The Guardian
pressIt's rare for a studio horror film to feel this fresh and daring and it's arrived at a frighteningly topical moment for a country where racism is scarier than ever.
Newsroom
pressWhat's not really up for debate is how inherently smart and devilishly taut Get Out is.
Los Angeles Times
pressThere's so much here that Peele gets right, and he delights in turning familiar thriller tropes on their head: In this racially charged context, he knows exactly how to exploit the sight of an approaching police car for maximum stomach drop.
Little White Lies
pressGet Out takes racism's more traditional forms - slavery, incarceration, exploitation, blackface - for a new, thoroughly modern appropriative spin.
Hollywood Reporter
pressOne of the most satisfying thrillers in several years... proves that its first-time director, Key and Peele costar Jordan Peele, has plenty of career options if he should grow tired of doing comedy in front of the camera.
Loved this film it's simply shot, acting is just divine, beautifully plotted it just sucks you into the story from the first scene you are hooked, you'll laugh, a gasp but mostly you'll laugh because it's a crazy insane ride you will not forget in a hurry, a must see.
Get Out Like a crazy mix of ‘Wickerman’ ‘The Stepford Wives’ ‘Saw’ ‘Selfless’ ’Skeleton Key’ and ‘Wrong Turn’. It really had me guess a few times and frustrated on the edge of my seat that the main guy wasn’t doing anything. Aargh.. Really great film and well played out. Good timing and crazy beautiful ending. Genre : Drama, horror, thriller, sci-fi 4/5 :...
A well made satire with comedic moments. More of a mystery/thriller. A shame this has been over rated as a horror. It's not a horror at all.
A movie full of cringe moments but in a good way. You know what is going on and can't wait for it to happen but in the end it never runs how you expect.
Normally when you see a film you get an idea of what is going to happen, or there are parts of the upcoming plot you can work out, but not with Get Out - all my thoughts were totally wrong and the film keeps throwing up the unexpected which is great and the ending is quite different and cool to your standard horror. Plus I jumped twice during the film and...
***REVIEW MAY CONTAIN LIGHT SPOILERS*** You know we are in a post-Oscars movie slump when a satire horror like Get Out (2017) can generate global praise for bravely cutting new ground in film. The truth is: it does not. What it does is satirise the political correctness of a white majority that expresses racial tolerance but harbours malice for those who...
**Warning - may contain spoilers.** I wasn't too sure of what to expect from the movie since it wasn't a big budget Hollywood movie and didn't have big names in it. I didn't want to read too much about it to avoid spoilers. Boy was I surprised to be thoroughly entertained with puzzlement, wondering what was going in with that family. Then horror, comedy,...
Variety
pressBlending race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele proves positively fearless - which is not at all the same thing as scareless.
Time Out
pressA horror film with the power to put a rascally grin on the face of that great genre subverter John Carpenter (They Live), Get Out has more fun playing with half-buried racial tensions than with scaring us to death.
The New York Times
pressPart of what makes "Get Out" both exciting and genuinely unsettling is how real life keeps asserting itself, scene after scene.
The Guardian
pressIt's rare for a studio horror film to feel this fresh and daring and it's arrived at a frighteningly topical moment for a country where racism is scarier than ever.
Newsroom
pressWhat's not really up for debate is how inherently smart and devilishly taut Get Out is.
Los Angeles Times
pressThere's so much here that Peele gets right, and he delights in turning familiar thriller tropes on their head: In this racially charged context, he knows exactly how to exploit the sight of an approaching police car for maximum stomach drop.
Little White Lies
pressGet Out takes racism's more traditional forms - slavery, incarceration, exploitation, blackface - for a new, thoroughly modern appropriative spin.
Hollywood Reporter
pressOne of the most satisfying thrillers in several years... proves that its first-time director, Key and Peele costar Jordan Peele, has plenty of career options if he should grow tired of doing comedy in front of the camera.
Loved this film it's simply shot, acting is just divine, beautifully plotted it just sucks you into the story from the first scene you are hooked, you'll laugh, a gasp but mostly you'll laugh because it's a crazy insane ride you will not forget in a hurry, a must see.
Get Out Like a crazy mix of ‘Wickerman’ ‘The Stepford Wives’ ‘Saw’ ‘Selfless’ ’Skeleton Key’ and ‘Wrong Turn’. It really had me guess a few times and frustrated on the edge of my seat that the main guy wasn’t doing anything. Aargh.. Really great film and well played out. Good timing and crazy beautiful ending. Genre : Drama, horror, thriller, sci-fi 4/5 :...
A well made satire with comedic moments. More of a mystery/thriller. A shame this has been over rated as a horror. It's not a horror at all.
A movie full of cringe moments but in a good way. You know what is going on and can't wait for it to happen but in the end it never runs how you expect.
Normally when you see a film you get an idea of what is going to happen, or there are parts of the upcoming plot you can work out, but not with Get Out - all my thoughts were totally wrong and the film keeps throwing up the unexpected which is great and the ending is quite different and cool to your standard horror. Plus I jumped twice during the film and...
***REVIEW MAY CONTAIN LIGHT SPOILERS*** You know we are in a post-Oscars movie slump when a satire horror like Get Out (2017) can generate global praise for bravely cutting new ground in film. The truth is: it does not. What it does is satirise the political correctness of a white majority that expresses racial tolerance but harbours malice for those who...
**Warning - may contain spoilers.** I wasn't too sure of what to expect from the movie since it wasn't a big budget Hollywood movie and didn't have big names in it. I didn't want to read too much about it to avoid spoilers. Boy was I surprised to be thoroughly entertained with puzzlement, wondering what was going in with that family. Then horror,...
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