What, no chainsaw?

Rating: Null/10 (25 March 2017)

In a thriller that was inspired by horror movies that Jordan Peele has viewed over the course of his lifetime, there are a number of classic/cliché horror genre references - by design (Jordan Peele stated as much in interviews). One such allusion is the man with the ax - which he uses to split firewood. I thought it would've been an interesting scene for the same groundskeeper to come up unseen behind the protagonist, Chris, as he is walking silently through the woods; turn on the chainsaw, thereby startling Chris and the audience; then casually mention, as he cuts a dead tree into pieces that he will later "process" by splitting it into firewood, something like, "With a little effort and know-how, this decrepit old thing can be repurposed and made useful".