
ABOUT THE FILM...
The film "Get Out" was produced by the popular horror film production company "Blumhouse", and was directed by Jordan Peele in 2017. The film follows the story of Chris Washington, a black man who takes a weekend trip with his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage, to meet her family. During his stay at the family house, he encounters plenty of unsettling people and situations: the two strangely acting black people who work on the property, one a maid and the other a groundskeeper, who break there character occasionally and seem terrified; Rose's mother, the psychiatrist who specializes in hypnotism and brings Chris to "the sunken place"; and another young black man he meets at the families annual "party", who seems strangely familiar and tells Chris to leave. By the end, it is revealed that the Armitage family, every year, ritualistically finds a black person with the help of Rose, brings them to the family home, hypnotizes them, takes out their brains, and puts those of white peoples in them so they can live another life. This film literally tells the story of Chris' survival, but also illustrates the reality of racism in America today, and how that is the scariest part of the whole film, the reality of it all.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR...
Jordan Peele, full name Jordan Haworth Peele, was born on February 21st of 1979 in New York City, USA. He is best known for this film, "Get Out", as well as "Us", the next horror film he created which is related to "Get Out", and also surrounds the topic of race. His most popular project yet was "Keanu", a film he co-directed in 2016. As a black man who grew up in America, Jordan is all too familiar with racial stereotyping and oppression in America that, in many ways, is fuelled by a christian society. When making this film, he said it started as a horror film, but it quickly flipped to a film with the message of racial oppression, and how racism is the real monster hiding in the shadows.

