Overview
A chilling exploration of hidden horrors lurking beneath the surface of suburban life.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- foreboding
- paranoid
- satirical
- horror movie night
- social satire double feature
What critics said
Critics broadly praised Jordan Peele's assured direction, inventive horror-comedy construction, incisive racial satire, and Daniel Kaluuya's performance.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The Armitage family's hidden practices transform racism, appropriation, and dehumanization into an escalating horror premise.
Chris encounters excessive accommodation and progressive self-presentation that gradually reveal an oppressive system.
The hypnosis sequences render Chris's helpless observation and externally controlled body through stark, memorable imagery.
Rod's comic reactions and the family's awkward liberal language repeatedly relieve and intensify the surrounding horror.
Films like Get Out, and why
Candyman
socially incisive horror, racial anxiety, and escalating domestic dread
The Stepford Wives
psychological horror using an apparently welcoming community to expose racism and exploitation
The Invitation
darkly comic horror, hidden conspiracy, and an ordinary protagonist trapped by an elite social world
The Menu
satirical horror built around class privilege, concealed violence, and mounting paranoia
Movie Details
- Director
- Jordan Peele
- Release Date
- 2017-02-24
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 (19391)
Cast
- Daniel Kaluuya
- Allison Williams
- Catherine Keener
- Bradley Whitford
- Caleb Landry Jones
- Marcus Henderson
- Betty Gabriel
- LaKeith Stanfield
- Stephen Root
- Lil Rel Howery
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- fuboTV, Peacock Premium, YouTube TV, FXNow, Peacock Premium Plus
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Get Out about?
- A Black photographer's uneasy weekend with his white girlfriend's family becomes a razor-sharp nightmare of racial exploitation, coercion, and escape.
- What is Get Out like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Get Out as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Get Out violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Get Out as graphic.
- What did critics think of Get Out?
- Critics broadly praised Jordan Peele's assured direction, inventive horror-comedy construction, incisive racial satire, and Daniel Kaluuya's performance.
- Which films are like Get Out?
- Films with a similar feel include Candyman, The Stepford Wives, The Invitation, and The Menu.
- How long is Get Out?
- Get Out runs 104 minutes.
- Where can I watch Get Out?
- In United States, Get Out streams on fuboTV, Peacock Premium, YouTube TV, FXNow, Peacock Premium Plus.
