the director too clearly has skills but that chip on his shoulder and a liking for racial humour may hold him back.

Rating: 7/10 (8 April 2019)

A measured and endearing enough beginning as a couple proceed to 'meet the parents'. The fact that she is white, the family wealthy and he is black shouldn't make any difference. Should it? He is aprehensive and we understand and to some extent share his concerns, especially as she seems not to have any similar concerns. This is where we are already sensing something is wrong but when things turn 'weird' at the house we rather relax into the notion that this is going to be a horror story, maybe based on the guy's paranoia. Well, this goes way beyond that into 'Society' and 'Stepford Wives' territory, but always with an element of race. This becomes more and more pronounced until the film is about little else and the audience is set up to cheer the death count (of the white folk). Allison Williams is a real discovery and will surely go on to greater things and the director too clearly has skills but that chip on his shoulder and a liking for racial humour may hold him back.