Today I watched Jordan Peele's debut 'Get Out' with my wife. So, as a chicken-hearted horror fan that I am, I decided to start a horror review series starting with this great movie.
So, now, turn the lights off, look over your shoulders, lift your ears and BEWARE! today we'll have a Friday Nightmare...
'Get Out' reached the movie theater this week on Brazil. The 104 minutes long psychological terror is full of humor, racial tension, action, weirdness and some blood.
I am slightly away from horror movies in general. Since the last 'The Conjuring' I was quite disappointed, but when my wife showed me a Daniel Kaluuya afraid in a horror movie trailer I knew I should watch that one. I am not ashamed to say that I only watched because of him, since 'Fifteen Million Merits' is my favorite 'Black Mirror' episode.
Without spoilers, I will say that this movie brings the psychological horror to the spotlights. With a well-set atmosphere, the director brings to us an authentic scary movie without the notorious and always boring scare jumps.
First of all, Chris is a high relatable protagonist arousing the public sympathy. The average guy personality let us close to the story, preventing it from becoming boring. Also, he is a very smart guy, unlike those stupid ones sp typical in horror movies.
Yes, Renfield, I am talking about you!
His girlfriend, Rose, portrayed by Alisson Williams, is not the ingenuous girl either, actually, her role brings one of the greatest movies plot twists. Her parents and brother, in other hands, kind of give the story to the audience.
But don't worry, despite being a half obvious plot, it is still a good one. Listen to me. It could trick you - as it tricked me - and let you with your I-always-guess-the-whole-plot pride hurt.
The funny atmosphere is delivered by Chris's best friend Rod, amazingly portrayed by Lil Rel Howery, with his satirical jokes. Also, he is one of the main responsible for the explicit racial tension in movie talk. While the movie itself awakens us to discrimination and racism with the characters dialogues and a black man who is not the first to die in the movies very thirty minutes, Rod shows us that some things are true no matter how crazy it looks our sounds.
The movie end is heavily inspired by 'The Stepford Wives' and 'The Skeleton Key' and somewhat a mix of those great movies. I strongly recommend you to watch 'Get Out' as, to me and to a lot of people, it is one of the greater horror movies. I terrorized gives it 4 of 5 blood patterns.
Good night and bloody nightmares...
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