trailer for jordan peele’s new horror film ‘us’
“it’s important to note that this movie, unlike ‘get out,’ is not about race. instead it’s about something i feel has become an undeniable truth — that is the simple fact that we are our own worst enemies.” – jordan peele
haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. ‘us’ pits an endearing american family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
“for my second feature, i wanted to create a monster mythology. i wanted to do something that was more firmly in the horror genre but still held on to my love of movies that are twisted but fun.” – jordan peele
lupita nyong’o said that the director gave her 10 films to watch so they would have “a shared language” when filming:
– dead again (kenneth branagh, 1991)
– the shining (stanley kubrick, 1980)
– the babadook (jennifer kent, 2014)
– it follows (david robert mitchell, 2014)
– a tale of two sisters (kim jee-woon, 2003)
– the birds (alfred hitchcock, 1963)
– funny games (michael haneke, 1997)
– martyrs (pascal laugier, 2008)
– let the right one in (tomas alfredson, 2008)
– the sixth sense (m. night shyamalan, 1999)
