Top Class

Rating: 8/10 (25 November 2019)

This was excellent! All I knew going in was that it was Jordan Peele and it was a horror/thriller. Had not even seen a trailer. But man oh man what a weird scary ride. It was as if he'd rolled all the high quality horror movies from the past few years into an Optimo and passed me that shiz on Friday the 13th! JP knows his 80's horror too. The main reasons I didn't give it a 10 is it did admittedly get kinda trope-y in places (and threatened to derail altogether by the end but...so do all the classic 80's horror movies!) and some of the classic horror logic problems were hard to swallow. But aside from that this was top drawer. Way way better than any of the movies I've never made. The casting of Tim Heidecker (immediately re-watched The Comedy soons this was over. If you haven't seen that cringe epic do so - if you think you can handle it) and Elizabeth Moss just shows the level of JP's taste and the respect that ultra-cool talented actors have for him. I didn't get too caught up trying to decipher whatever political metaphors may have been at work but that's what subsequent viewings are for. Of which there will be many. But please let this dude keep making all the films he wants. B-yacht-ch!!!