Scratch beneath the surface

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2019)

With a trailer that intrigued as well as thrilled I approached Jordan Peele's new thriller with high anticipation. Much like last year's Hereditary what I felt I got was a movie that thrilled, disturbed and bemused me in equal measure. There's a lot going on in this film and much of it's impact hit me long after I left the cinema. As a suspense movie it was fine but I felt the tension didn't build as deliciously as it did in Get Out but in terms of the underlying themes it's scope reached much further than that brilliant debut. Ultimately Us is another winner and marks Peele out as one of the most important new voices working in the horror genre and beyond.