A horror movie for people who don't like horror movies. Racist? Oh per-lease.

Rating: 9/10 (7 June 2018)

'Get Out' is what you shout at a character in a horror movie who's doing everything but what a sensible human being would do - looking in the basement, getting into the car, going to bed with the vampire. Don't go there! Get out!
Chris Washington (Afro-English Daniel Kaluuya) is an African-American photographer with an old-money white girlfriend (Allison Williams) who goes to her (weird) parents' country place for the weekend. Get out, says his buddy (LilRel Howery) over the phone, who's minding his dog. But Chris can't. Or can he? Should he? What's wrong with all the black people in this house? It's all good. Until it isn't.
The great thing about Get Out is that it creates its own logical universe and sticks to it. There's a reason for everything that happens, including how all the characters react, and it all makes sense within the movie. It's also refreshing, knowing and funny in its treatment of the Guess Who's Coming To Dinner angle, with a lot of er, black humour.
My fave is where the buddy goes to the cops to explain that Chris has been missing for 2 days. I won't spoil the joke.
As well as good jokes, there are excellent shock and suspense moments too; it's a well-paced, quality movie and there's some class acting turns. It puts a modern racial angle on a pretty traditional horror scenario, but It does this very well indeed.
Ultimately it's an old-school thriller with a social twist; and the gore and violence levels pitched perfectly. Enough to make you cringe, but not to make you retch, Also includes things to think about and things to laugh at.