Proves that Peele is one of modern cinema's most unique, interesting filmmakers and that Get Out was certainly no fluke

Rating: 9/10 (28 March 2019)

Us is a horror film written, produced, and directed by Jordan Peele (Get Out). Starring Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke, it proves that Peele is one of modern cinema's most unique, interesting filmmakers and that Get Out was certainly no fluke.
33 years after a traumatic childhood incident, Adelaide Thomas (Lupita Nyong'o) travels with her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and two children Zora and Jason (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) to their family holiday house in Santa Cruz, California. Late one night, the family are visited by a group of four people who stand menacingly out front of the driveway. After Gabe fails to make them leave, the four people break into the house and reveal to the family that they are their exact doppelgängers, albeit, wearing red clothes and brandishing large pairs of scissors.
Much like Get Out, Us is a slowburner horror film, relying on building a tense and foreboding atmosphere during the first and second acts, resulting in an explosive conclusion. Similar to how Get Out had flashes of David Lynch influences, Peele's clever use of cinematography and symbolism in Us has strong allusions to the work of Stanley Kubrick, in particular his 1980 film "The Shining". Each of the main cast were terrific playing both their regular characters and their frightening doppelgängers, in particular Lupita Nyong'o. What one can expect next from the brilliant and unique mindset of Jordan Peele is anyone's guess, though I am already on board at this point.
I rate it 8.5/10