Director: Jordan Peele
Screenplay: Jordan Peele
Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Madison Curry, Tim Heidecker, Elisabeth Moss
Running Time: 116 minutes
Genre: Horror
The Wilson family, Adelaide (Nyong'o) and Gabe (Duke) and their children Zora (Joseph) and Jason (Alex), head out on vacation to their beach house. Adelaide doesn't like the beach due to something that happened to her as a child. She notices that their seem to be an unusual number of strange coincidences surrounding them. One night their house is invaded by another family, who are their exact doubles.
Jordan Peele made a huge splash with his debut feature, the multi-award winning Get Out (2017), and he follows it up with another disturbing look at modern-day America through the lens of horror. Us is more of a straightforward horror film than Get Out, and it is genuinely scary and funny. While it doesn't have as much of an overt satirical bite and social commentary as Get Out it is still there as subtext. The idea of the doppelganger is a scary one and this is an interesting variation on the "evil double" theme. The film is overlong and it does slow down with an exposition heavy climax, sometimes it feels like an extended Twilight Zone episode (Peele has acknowledged the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "Mirror Image" as an inspiration). The cast are excellent in dual roles. The film takes it's time building up the characters and their personalities and relationships and so you care about them. You're interested in spending time with these people, even before the horror elements kick off.
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