Overview
A family's idyllic vacation turns into a nightmare as they confront their terrifying doppelgängers.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- dread-filled
- surreal
- oppressive
- late night horror viewing
- halloween movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised Jordan Peele’s ambitious, inventive horror, social allegory, and Lupita Nyong’o’s dual performance, while acknowledging that its mysteries invite more questions than answers.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The tethered doubles and their uprising connect personal terror to oppression and unequal social structures.
Adelaide’s childhood encounter at the Santa Cruz funhouse shapes the family’s vacation and the mysteries surrounding her identity.
The Wilsons face grotesque counterparts who mirror their appearances and movements inside their vacation home.
The doubles’ coordinated emergence across America transforms one family’s home invasion into a vision of widespread social unrest.
Films like Us, and why
Get Out
inventive psychological horror, social allegory, and escalating domestic paranoia
The Strangers
family-centered home-invasion horror with doubles, social anxiety, and sustained dread
Black Swan
surreal psychological horror using identity, repression, and eerie doubles
Parasite
stylized horror, class critique, and an ordinary family confronting hidden violence
Movie Details
- Director
- Jordan Peele
- Release Date
- 2019-03-14
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (8325)
Cast
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Winston Duke
- Elisabeth Moss
- Tim Heidecker
- Shahadi Wright Joseph
- Evan Alex
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
- Anna Diop
- Cali Sheldon
- Noelle Sheldon
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
- 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 Us about?
- A vacationing family battles grotesque doubles whose invasion exposes buried trauma and a disturbing vision of American inequality.
- What is Us like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Us as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Us violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Us as graphic.
- What did critics think of Us?
- Critics broadly praised Jordan Peele’s ambitious, inventive horror, social allegory, and Lupita Nyong’o’s dual performance, while acknowledging that its mysteries invite more questions than answers.
- Which films are like Us?
- Films with a similar feel include Get Out, The Strangers, Black Swan, and Parasite.
- How long is Us?
- Us runs 116 minutes.
- Where can I watch Us?
- In United States, Us streams on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max.
