{"id":12229,"date":"2019-03-28T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=12229"},"modified":"2019-03-28T22:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:20:59","slug":"stranger-with-my-face-i-watch-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2019\/03\/stranger-with-my-face-i-watch-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Stranger with My Face: I watch “Us”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Jordan Peele\u2019s Oscar-winning directorial debut, 2017\u2019s \u201cGet Out<\/a>,\u201d was as much an exploration of the nature of racism as it was a suspenseful horror flick. Horror with a fairly obvious meaning can hit hard: \u201cThe Babadook\u201d is a compelling and elegant fright fest, even once you know that the Babadook is grief. But our fears rarely come with a decoder ring. So it\u2019s terrific to see that Peele\u2019s latest film, the home-invasion horror \u201cUs,\u201d is skillful and strange, opening up subterranean levels in the psyche and letting the creatures within come out to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cUs\u201d treads some of the most trampled ground in contemporary horror: 1980s nostalgia; guilt and rage over inequality. But it steps with balletic grace. Though its opening set in the \u201880s works as a \u201cspot the reference\u201d game for horror fans\u2014look, it\u2019s the Santa Cruz funfair where they filmed \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d! Look, it\u2019s a \u201cC.H.U.D.\u201d videocassette, on the shelf right above the Rubik\u2019s cube!\u2014it is also much more than that. The film begins the night little Adelaide (Madison Curry) wanders off while her father is distracted by Whac-a-Mole and finds a strange funhouse on the beach (look, it\u2019s \u201cBig\u201d!) where, inside a hall of mirrors, she finds herself staring at the back of her own reflection. Then the girl in the mirror turns around, a smile knifing across her face\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Creepy mirror via Pixabay<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jordan Peele\u2019s Oscar-winning directorial debut, 2017\u2019s \u201cGet Out,\u201d was as much an exploration of the nature of racism as it was a suspenseful horror flick. Horror with a fairly obvious meaning can hit hard: \u201cThe Babadook\u201d is a compelling and elegant fright fest, even once you know that the Babadook is grief. 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