Comic actor Jordan Peele makes an impressive directorial debut in this unnerving sociohorror flick

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 2017)

GET OUT (2017) *** Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Stephen Root, LilRey Howery, Lakeith Stanfield. Comic actor Jordan Peele makes an impressive directorial debut in this unnerving sociohorror flick about a young black man (low-key yet very affective everyman turn by Kaluuya) on a weekend visit to his new white girlfriend's (Williams) family and encounters some truly odd ducks in the process and sinister underpinnings afoot. Echoes of '70s thrillers like The Stepford Wives and spooky characters like the family maid (sadly scary Gabriel) lay the bedrock of what lies beneath the surface of race, familiarity and class structure.