2017 ( USA ) ( Horror, Mystery )
DIRECTOR: Jordan Peele
STARRING: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford
Chris and his girlfriend Rose decide to visit her parent’s for the first time. Chris wants to know whether Rose has mentioned his skin colour to her folks, but she assures him it’s irrelevant. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behaviour as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
This is a movie that at times is scary, bloody and macabre, at other times funny enough to qualify as full-blown comedy. However it is always acutely observant of race relations in post-Obama, early-Trump, America. In Jordan Peele’s debut feature, the writer-director has pulled off something special: a movie that is a funny, scary, and thought-provoking thrill ride.
(1hr 44min)