Completely subverted expectations in a mostly good way!

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2020)

Writer/Director Jordan Peele's much anticipated follow up to his outstanding debut film Get Out may leave some viewers scratching their heads and although it is perhaps not as scary as expected, it's still a brilliantly performed and endlessly entertaining piece with darkly comic edges. Us follows the Wilson family; Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) Gabe (Winston Duke) and their children Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Peters) all on a beach holiday to Santa Cruz. Things start to get unsettling for Adelaide who notices strange things are afoot; all leading to their holiday home being invaded and them being terrorised by their doppelgängers. Nyong'o's performance is absolutely fantastic; she really captures the paranoid terror Adelaide feels during this time so well and also portrays her doppelgänger to frightening effect! Thematically it's also interesting and there are some pretty cool set pieces. Worth a watch for any horror fan with a desire to watch something out of the ordinary