Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Movie review - "Get Out" (2017) **** (warning: spoilers)

A superb horror film - a black/white riff on The Stepford Wives, extremely well written, directed and acted. It all comes together seamlessly and is a massive promotion for low budget movies. The satire is fresh - skewering the pretensions of white liberals and the fear of modern day blacks.

The cast is uniformly excellent and I LOVED how the hero was a TSA agent. Those people will remember this movie forever.

I'm glad it had a happy ending. The violence is very cathartic. In a way this reminded me of 1960s Edgar Allan Poe pictures - a lot of walking around a haunted house with a big bang at the end.

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