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UNITED STATES · 2017
Get Out
Synopsis
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. 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 never could have imagined.
Cinema Atlas Connection
Jordan Peele has cited Roman Polanski's apartment trilogy — Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant — as foundational to Get Out. Polanski showed how domestic spaces become sites of paranoia and entrapment, how politeness itself becomes threatening. Michael Haneke's Funny Games — streaming on Criterion Channel — is the direct ancestor of Get Out's use of liberal white comfort as horror. The most frightening films are about the violence hiding inside normalcy.
Movies like Audition and A Tale of Two Sisters were definitely big for me in terms of inspiring how to construct tension and scares.
— Jordan Peele · IGN interview with Alex Gilyadov