Hype does not create good cinema

Rating: 2/10 (21 June 2020)

Overwrought & over-promoted. I was at a convention panel several years ago that featured Mr Peele as one of the guests. Overall, it was a lively and intelligent discussion, but one of the things that stuck with me afterwards was Jordan Peele's relentless self-aggrandizement as the next great horror director; I believe he even went as far as referring to himself as "the black Alfred Hitchcock" (not that I personally ever saw Hitchcock as a horror film maker; suspense, crime, and thriller yes, but not horror). So now, with this narrative mess of a film, Peele has two horror films to in his credentials; neither of which are particularly original or frightening.
I see that he has his fanatics and devoted adherents, but ego and self-promotion are not substitutes for talent. Mr Peele has demonstrated that he is an excellent comedian and is a reasonably knowledgeable horror fan, but he is light years distant from having himself or his films being included in the lists of the creators and creations of the Greats of Horror.