<em>Get Out</em> Is a Funny and Brilliantly Subversive Horror Film
The <em>Key & Peele </em>comedian Jordan Peele makes a confident, richly textured debut as a writer and director.
The opening scene of is a familiar horror-movie image—a stranger walking an unfamiliar street, in the dead of night, nervously looking over their shoulder at every rustle of sound. The setting is the suburbs, a frequent favorite of the slasher genre, only the victim is not a scantily clad teen girl, but an African American man, uneasily navigating what seems like hostile territory. A car pulls up alongside him, blasting the dirge-like old-fashioned ditty “.” “Not today,” he mutters, turning around and walking in the
