Everyday horrors can be just as terrifying

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2019)

*SPOILER ALERT*
"Get Out" artfully uses the masked side of day-to-day systemic racism in a post-racial society to create a platform for an excellent and suspenseful horror film. Jordan Peele constructed a film that could be told even without dialogue via its mise-en-scene, intertextuality, and all the different angles and shots that put you in Chris's shoes. Using close ups of the Armitage's help, with huge smiles on their face but tears rolling down their cheeks, visually articulates the suffering minorities go through to please society. The Armitage residence is also not just any house you see in a stereotypic horror film either, but more like the Bates residence in "Psycho." This house seems aesthetically normal by appearance, leading you to believe there is nothing wrong or evil contained in the house while making you want to trust this house and this family.
Of course the most brilliant and most well known scene of "Get Out" is the beautifully and artistic representation of the unheard voices and opinions of minorities, as Peele depicts: The Sunken Place. This place, of falling into a black-hole and surviving only at the will of others, is literally created using low, high, and eye camera angles and mastered cinematography. This scene shows Chris falling and falling alone in a dark abyss, reaching and grasping to save himself, with only a single sight of light from above showing his white family capturers, depicting the power they hold on Chris.
This film beyond exceeded my expectations as a horror film, including jump scares and ongoing suspension through the unsettling and creepiness of the environment, leaving me holding my breath from beginning to end. This film sets itself aside from other horror films by using the everyday horrors of a racial minorities as the medium to induce horror and suspense to an audience. Of course this film has its shares of weapons, slaughters, and "the final girl" (although she is depicted as the monster in this film) themes that it shares with traditional horror films, but it's use of social issues to create a platform to reach that genre is truly fresh than other recent horror films I have seen, setting "Get out" in a revisionist genre stage.