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Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2017)

Get Out is a satirical horror film. In some ways it reminded me of the remake of The Stepford Wives.
Daniel Kaluuya plays Chris Washington who is on a weekend visit to the parents of his white girlfriend Rose. (Allison Williams). Her father is a neurosurgeon and her mother is a hypnotherapist.
The family come across as an inclusive affluent liberal family who welcome this young black man. Chris however feels perturbed, even suspicious especially as he believes he has been hypnotised by Rose's mother.
At a family garden party Chris finds that their friends and neighbours although welcoming also take an unusual interest in him. Something is not right and even Rose might be complicit to whatever is going on.
The film directed by Jordan Peele is actually very slow to get going but does leave you intrigued as to how it will all turn out, even hinting that what is going on might all be in Chris's mind. British actor Daniel Kaluuya has a wide eyed look of a lamb being led to slaughter. Comic relief is provided by his best buddy Rod, a TSA agent who finds incidents of young black men who have disappeared and forms a bizarre theory.
Like a lot of horror films, much of it in retrospect does not make too much sense.