Everything We Know about Us, Jordan Peele’s Follow-Up to Get Out, So Far…
- M.P.Norman
- Dec 26, 2018
- 2 min read
Culturedemandsgeeks, Santa’s brought us gifts galore over Christmas, but Jordan Peele’s new film will bring us creeps from the director.
After Get Out hit the American box office like a bombshell in 2017, racking up $255 million on a mere $4.5 million budget, it was immediately clear that Jordan Peele had arrived as a 21st-century populist filmmaker.
What kind of film is Us?
It’s clear that there are definitely thriller/horror elements to Us, which the poster describes as “a new nightmare from the mind of Jordan Peele.” The trailer for the film is an absolute “horror thriller.” Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke star in Jordan Peele’s horror film “Us,” about a family facing invaders during a summer getaway.
The trailer opens with parents Gabe (Duke) and Adelaide (Nyong’o) Wilson and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) happily squabbling in the car as they listen to I Got 5 On It.
We see the family relaxing on the beach, with friend Moss pronouncing it “vodka o’clock”.
Then the atmosphere changes, as one of the children runs up to an eerie figure wearing fingerless brown leather gloves standing stock-still on the beach.
Back at the house, it gets worse, as some unwelcome visitors arrive.
The trailer above:
Writer/director Jordan Peele unveiled the first trailer for his new horror movie “Us” (in theaters March 15), the highly anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning social thriller ”Get Out,” on Christmas morning. And it’s guaranteed to freak some folks out between opening presents and digging into their ham dinners.
Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) protects her children (Evan Alex and Shahadi Wright Joseph) from sinister invaders in “Us.”
That’s definitely part of the reason for the holiday timing, Peele tells USA TODAY, adding in a devious little “Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha” chuckle. “There is a certain Christmas magic that I want to sort of tap the dark side of with this trailer. It’s a movie about a family, and at a time when families are together to be able to discuss what they’ve just seen, it resonates in a special way.”
Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) takes her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) to her beachside California hometown for a summer getaway. One night, though, mysterious individuals show up in their driveway, and the little boy announces the visitors in truly creepy fashion: “It’s us.” Cue various scary scenery with the Wilsons’ malevolent doppelgangers haunting the family that lives up to the trailer’s chilling tagline “We are our own worst enemy.”
The trailer manages to squeeze more scares, murders, rabbits and even more horror-elements than any trailer we have seen in a while, and generally scared our pants into brown submission.
VERDICT:
Us is an “eerie, creepy-ass” horror film, and one intended to make us think about identity and the line between reality and imagination.
“They look like us, they think like us, they know where we are,” the family realises. “They won’t stop until they kill us — or we kill them.” It is the second of five social thrillers he has previously said he hopes to release in the next decade.
Get ready to be scared shitless, Y’all.
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