Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 2000

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2017)

Sidney Poitier would have had his work cut out for him confronting the band of "enlightened" upscale Caucasoid suburbanites found in Get Out, a well paced dark comic horror film by Jordan Peele. Expecting a skeptical Tracy and Hepburn the hero goes from Sid to Duane Jones, Ben in Night of the Living Dead instead.
Promising photographer Chris and Kathy are off for a weekend to meet the parents in upstate NY. Chris a little edgy over the fact the parents are unaware of his racial make-up has these fears extinguished momentarily in their initial meeting as they attempt to make him at ease with cringing patronizing. Chris soon begins to see some strange behavior in the help and when he allows Kath's mom, a shrink to put him under hypnosis for his smoking habit the wheels really start to come off.
Auteur Peel maintains a decent balance of shock and laughter throughout Out with judicious editing and a touch of Bernhard Hermann score as protagonist Chris begins to get the feeling he's in this situation on his own. Things do become farcical eventually but not before Peele exhausts the subtle creepy undertone that energizes the film.
Dan Kayuuya's Chris as the much put upon hero takes it up a notch for a horror film conveying some intense desperation against a family out to get him. Allison Williams as his duplicitous girlfriend is chilling in more than one scene while Betty Gabriel as housekeeper Georgina offers up a few with a startling presence.
Get Out is an entertaining and well crafted horror for first timer Peele that certainly merits attention his next time out.