Us: “Get Out” director Jordan Peele is preparing a new nightmare in which two couples meet their perfect and brutal doubles.
“Get Out” director Jordan Peele is preparing a new nightmare in which two couples meet their perfect and brutal doubles.
With the socially critical horror film “Get Out”, director Jordan Peele created a real phenomenon in 2017. Not only did the film manage to bring in 255 million dollars – with production costs of 4.6 million dollars – but in addition, the shocker was nominated for the Oscars in the categories Best Film, Best Director and Best Leading Actor. Peele took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. And “Get Out” was only Jordan Peele’s directorial debut.
“We” – plot
All Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) really wants to do is go on a short summer holiday to the coast with her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and their two children Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex). But Adelaide connects a traumatic childhood experience with the amusement park in Santa Cruz, which she now slowly remembers. Something terrible happened at the seemingly harmless place. And the horror has not yet been overcome.
In the evening, four unknown people suddenly appear in front of the family’s holiday home. They do not react to any warning. Then they attack the holiday home. Adelaide is horrified to discover that they are perfect doubles of her family. And they are not the only ones attacked. The Tyler friends – mother Kitty (Elisabeth Moss), father Josh (Tim Heidecker) and twin daughters Becca (Cali Sheldon) and Lindsey (Noelle Sheldon) – are also attacked by their cruel doppelgangers.
“We” – Cast
With his second feature film “We” (OT: “Us”), Peele aims to build on the success of “Get Out” in spring 2019. Peele, who has again written the screenplay, is once again producing the horror film under the aegis of Jason Blum (“Blackkklansman”) with the two “Black Panther” actors Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke as well as “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Elisabeth Moss in the leading roles. In the run-up to the film, Peele had emphasised several times that he wanted to set himself apart from “Get Out” with his second feature film, and he succeeded impressively with “Us”.
The horror thriller mixes set pieces from very different genres into a subversive and metaphor-rich nightmare about the human psyche. Elements from home invasion thrillers, end-time films and the paranoia horror film are combined into a disturbing whole. It is worth watching “We” several times. And for her performance in a difficult double role, Lupita Nyong’o deserves her second Oscar.
