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Get Out2017

Name: Get Out
Genre: Psychological, Witchcraft & Occult, Survival
Released: 2017-02-24
Rating: 8

“Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome.”

Directed by Jordan Peele

8.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 7.8Rotten Tomatoes 98%Metacritic 85TMDB 7.6

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#1·Top Horror Movies of 2017 #3·Top Witchcraft & Occult Films #3·Top Horror Movies of the 2010s #7·Top Survival Films #11·Top Psychological Films #17·Top Horror Movies of All Time

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Year

2017

Runtime

104 min

Box Office

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$255,407,969

Domestic

$176,196,665

🏆 Won 1 Oscar. 154 wins & 214 nominations total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

When photographer Chris accompanies his white girlfriend Rose to meet her family for a weekend getaway, what begins as mild social discomfort quietly curdles into something far more sinister. The Armitage household harbors secrets beneath its polished, welcoming surface — secrets with deep roots in power, control, and exploitation. Jordan Peele's feature debut weaponizes the conventions of the thriller to expose a uniquely American horror, building unbearable tension through everyday microaggressions before exploding into visceral, survival-stakes terror. Few films have so precisely captured the feeling of being the only one in the room who senses something is terribly, fundamentally wrong.

Content: Racial Discrimination And Microaggressions, Psychological Manipulation, Hypnosis-Based Coercion, Violence, Themes Of Bodily Autonomy Violation, Peril And Captivity