Us: A great slice of horror

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2019)

Let's get right down to it: Is this movie as good as "Get Out"? No, but "Us" is still a great horror film by any stretch of the imagination.
As you've seen from the trailers, "Us'" focuses on a family who is menaced by monstrous doppelgangers of themselves. It begins in 1986, where young Adelaide encounters a duplicate of herself in a funhouse, an event that traumatizes her. Years later, Adelaide is a wife and mother visiting her of family home. Unfortunately, she once again finds herself menaced by her look-alike, now backed up with a twisted replica of Adelaide's family.
There are some stabs (pun intended) at social commentary but, unlike "Get Out" , they don't really go to the meat of the story. Really, the horror here is more psychological, dealing with the relationship between the characters and their duplicates. The actors here have to pull of double duty here, which they do superbly, adding humanizing touches even when they are playing monsters. The reveal of where the duplicates come from does not make a ton of sense but by that point you will be so engrossed you won't care.