The lesson here is, watch out for them white women.
A straight-up horror thriller with influences ranging from Dario Argento to Robin Hardy and THE STEPFORD WIVES, with doses of humor and gore for the faithful, Peele’s debut is remarkably assured and commercial, with the Sundance audience (where it premiered as a secret screening) eating it up.
Several years back in 2011, I had a conversation with my dad about the portrayal of Black people in horror movies. We complained how either they were the first to die or nonexistent in the film. We were both very sick and tired of seeing the same cliche over and over again. He even tried to think of his own version of a horror movie starring African-Americans. We just ended the conversation in the hope a director would come along and make a legit horror flick that both perfectly portrayed the actions of African-Americans without any stereotypes with the characters and come off as a good movie. We had to accept the fact that, that movie was never going to happen for we watched theatrical parodies from Marlon Wayans as a diversion.
UNTIL NOW!
I'm genuinely surprised that Alt-Right groups haven't been more vocal about this movie being propaganda.
I saw a lot of comments along those lines when the trailer first got released (The Youtube comment section was a disaster) but its mellowed out since Peele described it as targeting liberal racism. The Alt-Right is fine with acknowledging racism so long as it is coming from the Left.
Critics Consensus: Funny, scary, and thought-provoking, Get Out seamlessly weaves its trenchant social critiques into a brilliantly effective and entertaining horror/comedy thrill ride