Hello, and welcome to the second post of a unit that I have been anticipating, yet dreading for months. The horror unit. This post is my analysis and response to watching Get Out, Jordan’s Peele’s immensely popular movie from 2017. It’s about Chris, an African-American man, decides to visit his Caucasian girlfriend’s parents during a weekend getaway. Although they seem normal at first, he is not prepared to experience the horrors ahead. Like my most recent post, which was a response to the movie Halloween, I am going to dissect the movie, it’s message, and my response.

To open, I want to discuss the most important feature. Horror. This is a horror movie, so most importantly to discuss is what about this movie is horrific? In my opinion, as a first time watcher what scared me most was the continuous discomfort and misleading nature of the story. Long pauses, questionable character traits, or odd dialogue and interactions put watchers on the edge. Then, as the story progresses and the story unfolds more and more disturbing aspects are revealed. The revealing of these horrors also tie with the killings. The mother of the family is hypnotizing African Americans, then the father performs brain surgery so that old, white neighbours and friends can inhabit their bodies while they watch in their own subconscious. They do it for sale, to make money, but to also better their family. Their grandmother lives in their maid (left), and their grandfather inhabits the groundskeeper. The old consciousness of these people watch in idle as their bodies are controlled.

Right now the overhanging monster is the fact that I have to direct our classes horror movie in the coming weeks. So, why not look deep into this movies director. Jordan Peele. I was introduced to Jordan Peele and comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key in 2014, in what stands as my favorite sketches ever, The Substitute Teacher. Have a watch.

Anyway, back to the point. I really like Jordan Peele. His use of long silence, beautiful character development and skin crawling sound make Get Out one of my favorite movies I’ve seen to date. But what does he say about his underlying meaning of the movie. It hints at racism, social divide, slavery, and even just the change in generations and how they view certain groups. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Said: “ [He] put [his] worst fears out there.”(Malkin) Through writing he realized that “slavery was not something of the past,” and that he wanted to speak to African American people having their “freedoms taken away.”

Finally, how does it connect to Marey Shelly’s Frankenstein. Honestly, the connection is faint. The only connection that I could really make was the constructs an expectations of society. In Frankenstein the people reject Frankenstein because he is different and ugly. In Get Out, one of the reasons that the old white people want to inhabit a young African American’s body is ‘cool’. They see it as hip and different. Interesting because that is a complete change of the Frankenstein storyline.