Movie · 2017 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 1h 44m · R · English
Curator score: 9.1/10 (5.1M ratings)
Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome.
Overview
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior 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.
Ratings
Curator score: 9.1/10
IMDb: 7.8/10
Letterboxd: 4.14/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
Metacritic: 85
TMDB: 7.6/10
Director
Jordan Peele
Production
Monkeypaw Productions, Blumhouse Productions, QC Entertainment
Cast
Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, LaKeith Stanfield, Stephen Root, Lil Rel Howery, Ashley LeConte Campbell, John Wilmot, Caren L. Larkey, Julie Ann Doan, Rutherford Cravens, Geraldine Singer, Yasuhiko Oyama, Richard Herd, Erika Alexander, Jeronimo Spinx
Where to watch
Max
Curator Review
Verdict
A sharp, highly entertaining horror-thriller that turns a weekend visit into a nightmare while using genre suspense to explore race, liberal hypocrisy, and the terror of being watched. It’s funny, tense, and meticulously controlled, with a payoff that feels both cathartic and devastating.
Best for
viewers who like horror with social commentary
fans of tense, twist-driven thrillers
people who enjoy dark satire and uncomfortable humor
audiences who want a smart, crowd-pleasing genre film
viewers interested in race, identity, and power dynamics
Skip if
you want straightforward, gore-heavy horror without subtext
you dislike social satire in genre films
you prefer slow-burn dread over escalating confrontation
you are sensitive to racial violence and psychological manipulation
Overview
Get Out is one of the rare modern horror films that feels instantly iconic without losing its precision. Jordan Peele builds dread from politeness, microaggressions, and the unbearable sense that something is off long before the plot fully reveals itself. The result is a thriller that is as funny as it is frightening, and as politically pointed as it is crowd-pleasing.
Worth noting
What makes it endure is how cleanly every joke, scare, and visual detail serves the same purpose. The film understands that horror can come from social performance as much as from monsters, and it uses that idea with ruthless control. Daniel Kaluuya anchors the movie with a performance that keeps the audience inside Chris’s growing alarm.
Bottom line
It’s also a movie with real rewatch value because the setup is so carefully engineered. Once you know where it’s going, the early scenes become even more chilling, and the comedy lands with a sharper edge. It’s both a genre machine and a cultural statement, which is why it became such a defining hit.
Top Letterboxd reviews
tildafan19 (4★) · 45980 likes
aggressively straight white boy into sports? killed in wrestling match. white dad who said he loves when deer die? impaled by antlers. evil psychiatrist mom? killed in her office. psycho girlfriend who earlier pretended to care that chris felt responsible for his moms hit and run? left to die by the side of the road. THATS called poetry motherfuckers
mememily (4.5★) · 42545 likes
my favorite commentary that I've read about this movie was from Rian Johnson who said "I love that if the movie Get Out existed in the world of Get Out, the parents would have told Chris how much they loved Get Out"
andrea🌹 (5★) · 32966 likes
the last scene where he deadass raises his hands when he sees the cop car even though hes the victim is highkey the most powerful thing ive ever seen im ready to sucker punch a white man
hunter strawberry (4.5★) · 17880 likes
pretty sure this is how travis meeting kylie's family looked like
Riley 🩸 (4★) · 16104 likes
the scariest moment in the movie was when the woman separated the milk from the cereal