Get Out [DVD] [2017]

A surprisely good film. I had not come across the lead actor before, actually an English guy with a realistic US accent. Good script and for his debut film well directed with a nice twist at the end. Not your average blood and guts horror but certainly worth a watch.

didnt expect but its one of the best movies i have seen in the last 2 years

l watched this movie and had high, high hopes having been advised by friends and reviewers not to read anything what so ever about it, not to read reviews, not to read opinion pieces or previews or anything at all really, as it may spoil it.For some time now I've had strong opinions about this spoiler idea, I dont think it is really possible to review or preview anything without giving some clues as to the story or content, it would make no sense to write something which is so vague as to give absolutely nothing away, and what would be the point of reading it too. I also am wary of films which depend up gimicks, startling content or surprises and twists, often it is easy to anticipate the endings of such films (the sixth sense and fight club I felt were very easy to predict, to name just two) and often it is these kinds of features which can be spoiled. In fact I often think that very good films are those which the content is known, its become part of pop culture or film cliche, and yet they still deserve to be watched and often are excellent to watch even though you know the conclusion, I'm think of Star Wars, Psycho or many other Hitchcock films.This movie (spolier alert, if you are into that sort of thing) was incredibly reminiscent of Stepford Wives, at the very least it bores heavily from that film cliche, I remember seeing, if I'm not wrong, episode of The Outer Limits, which featured an elitist prep school which was able to produce amazing changes in character among its student body, that was like this movie too, because it made use of the same tropes and cliches. Perhaps viewers may not be aware of the Greek myth which deals with sailors and sirens which I think it also borrows from but I was and it kind of telegraphed this too. So I found it kind of predictable, as a result I would not give it five stars, once it "mystery" was revealed there was still a bit to go and watching it felt like a bit of a waste of time for me (sorry), and while it would have made a fantastic, above par episode of a TV series such as Outer Limits, I do not really think it was worth a feature length production.Now, that said, the plus points, which is a brilliantly cast feature, all the actors and actresses put in a great performance. It is a very balanced performance too, it maintains suspense for the most part, until the final reveal, more or less, there is a good employment of humour at key points lightening the mood a little in preparation for the next scene. It is also beautifully shot, I dont think, besides a lot of Hitchcock movies which did it for the first time or at least most memorably, I have seen such a great use of cinematic filming techniques. This is worth mentioning as its noticing this which had motivated me to watch the film more than once, the story and performances alone would not have.I have heard reviewers compare this to "It Follows", of the two I think that "It Follows" is definitely the better movie, its more original and sort of manages to carry on beyond the moment of its own "big reveal" and you still feel like watching it to conclusion, which I did not really feel like watching this film. The comparison is fair, perhaps, in so far as they are both "indy" movies, with that sort of "have you seen?", viral marketing gimicks buzz about it but I would say it ends there.

5 star film.

A very well made film with a script which goes haywire in the last quarter descending into a ghoul horror film. The plot resolves around an extremely sensible black-white couple oozing New York Times (meaning upper East or West side) sensibilities and life style (great pads ! cool clothes! etc etc ) (aside from asking where they get all the dosh) takes a weekend to visit the will they won't they (be weird) parents in the country, which of course is in some all white enclave in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire or wherever such folks live who turn out to be on the surface classic upper or upper middle class white liberals - who as it turns out are far from that. Enough of the spoilers but Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner rapidly morphs into a horror show where our hero has to escape the extremely weird and it turns out violent predelictions of this master class of a family involving among other things hypnosis, a Charleston style body auction, dastardly basements and high tech surgery rooms among other things. Tight excellent directing and acting by the two leads, our sympathetic hero and his ultimately psycho girl friend. What rings truest is the extremely painful and remaining distance that divides race and experience in America and that is what gives this film its power even as a ghoulish metaphor. Otherwise the pretty sick reality of the plot is the same as in that Guess Who movie years ago, in contrast a really painful and horrible film to watch with Kathryn Hepburn and Spencer Tracey 'grappling' with (horror of horrors (not)) their daughter dating a black surgeon (Sidney Poitier) and ending in an equally ghoulish resolution where gee wiz everyone accepts - even those old white parents ! - that interracial relationships are cool ! Gduh....The real horror is that the divide is still there - a huge one - and that race still has to be the subject of very good and ultimately well done yarn like this one or as in years ago very bad ones like the aforesaid Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. So much for the post Obama non racial society. Maybe some day people will be recognized as people not categorized by the color of our skin. So we should hope. Or continue to do so. This is a telling road marker that we are not even away from the starting gate on the long arc of history to refer to Dr. King.