9/18/2023 0 Comments Movies like the thingIn 1968, right after the assassination of the Rev. “Get Out” is not the first horror film to confront race. Racial micro-aggressions and ominous signs (bad dreams, dead animals) mount, as this fish-out-of-water story takes a foreboding turn. Obama for a third term and when the forced smiles of the parents’ exclusively black servants start seeming a little uncanny. His anxiety increases when her father goes out of his way to tell him that he would have voted for Mr. In a scenario that has been described as “The Stepford Wives” meets “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), an African-American photographer, is about to meet his white girlfriend’s parents for the first time when he’s rattled to learn that she has not told them he is black. In his new movie, “Get Out,” he plays the scares straight, writing and directing the rare horror movie that tackles racial politics head on. (No one has made a funnier parody of “The Shining.”) Their acclaimed Comedy Central series may have been best known for President Obama’s “anger translator,” but it often lampooned scary movies with a specificity that could come only from a connoisseur of things that go bump in the night. No serious fan of the sketch comedy show “Key & Peele” will be surprised that Jordan Peele (the shorter half of its starring duo) is making his directorial debut with a horror film.
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