“There’s a family in our driveway…”
Yesterday was Christmas Day.
But it was also Jordan Peele day because the Get Out director only went and dropped the single most horrifying trailer of the entire year in the form of his upcoming movie, Us.
Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, and Elisabeth Moss, the film follows a family as they are terrorised by a harrowing group of people… who look exactly like they do.
Scared yet? You should be.
While we don’t know a whole lot about exactly what horrors are going to go down while the family try to spend a bit of quality time in their beach house, the trailer has given a few things away.
The first is that Peele’s unnerving comedic dialogue will, thankfully, be a staple of this film too, as the main characters run about trying not to get killed while also dropping some killer lines.
The second is that Lupita Nyong’o looks set to deliver the performance of a life time, while also scaring the absolute shit out of us which is always a plus.
And the third is that there’s a tonne of white rabbits in this movie which automatically makes it simultaneously creepy and great.
Peele astounded audiences early last year upon the release of Get Out – a film that was both equal parts terrifying, hilarious, and absolutely on point when it came to the performative woke-ness of white Americans.
Starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams, it followed the couple as they desperately tried to ensure that Kaluuya’s character’s body didn’t get repurposed as a shell for an old white dude to live inside… until it was revealed that Williams was in on the whole debacle too.
Spoilers.
The only bad news about Us is that it isn’t due for release in the US until March 15, which means we’re going to have to wait a while until we actually get to see it.
At least we can still re-watch Get Out in the meantime.
The trailer for Us can be watched here:
