{"id":94969,"date":"2017-02-15T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=94969"},"modified":"2017-02-15T16:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:28:32","slug":"get-out-film-review-21st-century-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/get-out-film-review-21st-century-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out film review: 21st century nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you know Jordan Peele\u2019s work, it\u2019s probably because he\u2019s made you laugh. With Get Out<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0the writer and star of Key And Peele<\/em><\/strong> and Keanu<\/em><\/strong> shows that he\u2019s more than capable of taking you right to the edge of your seat, turning his keen eye and sharp wit to the horror genre.<\/p>\n

Peele\u2019s directorial debut is both nail-biting genre cinema and a chilling piece of social commentary. Racial tension runs high throughout, as acclaimed photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) navigates a seemingly benign\u00a0but increasingly uncomfortable\u00a0situation.<\/p>\n

The setting is the secluded estate of Chris\u2019 white girlfriend Rose\u2019s (Allison Williams) wealthy family. She assures Chris that her family isn\u2019t racist, that her father Dean (Bradley Whitford) would have voted for Obama for a third time if he could, and that he will definitely bring that up.<\/p>\n

But as Chris meets Dean, Rose\u2019s hypnotherapist mother Missy (Catherine Keener) and her boozy, intense brother (Caleb Landry Jones), their endless attempts at political correctness are hard to read. Is there something underneath the smiles, the as-predicted Obama comments, the acknowledgment of their live-in help, and \u201cmy man\u201d endearments? When guests arrive for the annual garden party,\u00a0it feels like things are about to come to a head\u2026<\/p>\n

Many of Get Out<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s surprises have been given away by the marketing, but the fears on display here are not diluted by the fact that we know something bad is on the way. There are situations that we know all too well from real-world crimes and horrors\u00a0(a black man walking alone through an affluent suburb, an encounter with a casually racist highway patrolman), but it\u2019s the conversations with Rose\u2019s family that really crackle.<\/p>\n

With excellent performances from his cast (rising star Kaluuya is superb in a break-out lead role and Whitford in particular is gleefully unreadable), Peele creates an incredible sense of unease as Chris tries to curb his instinct to get out in the face of what could be blind racial stereotyping or what might be something far more sinister. He shows great confidence as he plays with genre conventions (two classics\u00a0in particular are heavily referenced and subverted) and takes some pretty big genre swings.<\/p>\n

The film was shot last year but\u00a0feels more relevant than ever in our current political climate, and Get Out<\/em><\/strong> doesn\u2019t only deliver an important, powerful message, it shows us a point of view that we too rarely see in horror\u00a0cinema. This is an excellent horror that is gripping, scary, witty and timely, and it’s got something to say. Even if you don’t think all of it comes off, you will be talking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jordan Peele’s debut horror Get Out is chilling and timely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":94970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[4755,797],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2477_TP_00034R-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}