Couldn't find a thread for this on the first few pages.

Finally got around to watching it, and it was one of the better horror/suspense movies I've seen in a long time. Creepy as fuck from start to finish, interesting idea, good execution and phenomenal performances by everyone. Pretty damn impressed. Peele is a pretty impressive writer/director, I could see how this would be even more creepy for black people since this seems to be an actual fear of some of the more paranoid ones.

Check it out if you haven't seen it.

Not gonna watch it, but I see that it's well-reviewed and I'm curious to learn more about the bolded part.

Just watch it lol.

I mean, you're around enough to know how negative I am with movies. If I say something is good, it's usually on point for most moviegoers.

Not gonna watch any movie with a scary/horror aspect to it. I'm not disputing that it's a great movie. But this might be a culturally significant movie that I should do my best to at least learn about



I'm interested in what you mean by this though. Are you saying that black people harbor some subconscious fear of re-enslavement? Or they fear that some elite white people are harboring some dark secret that blacks have yet to discover?

Will have to check it out this weekend, been looking for a decent horror flick.

Fucking loved it. So creepy, so awesome. Lived up to the hype no doubt.





Its really not horror/scary guys. Its more a Shyamalan supernatural/thriller style 'horror' film.

EW NO.

This post was edited by Goodell4President on May 26 2017 09:10pm

It was not what I expected and it was worth watching

Found it too predictable and not actually scary.

Wasn't bad, but my praise won't go further than 'mediocre'.

Little column a, little column b. You nailed it.

@Brendan - I don't think I ever referred to it as scary. I haven't been scared in a movie since I was 11 years old. The movie from start to finish created a creepy and tense atmosphere. It was subtle and yet over the top at the same time. Was just a well done movie and glad I finally got around to watching it.

SPOILERS

I wouldn't say it was predictable. They did a great job of making it so painfully obvious that they were brainwashing these people and keeping them as slaves that I certainly didn't piece together that rich white people had somehow come up with a procedure to transfer their consciousness into younger and what that saw as superior bodies. I thought it was a neat and original concept and just made everything that much more creepy. I didn't understand why the matriarch/patriarch of the household were reduced to a housekeeper and groundskeeper. That was the one thing that I felt didn't make a damn bit of sense and that threw me out of the moment a bit during that final altercation.

They did so many things right though. Rose impressed me probably the most. Her eyes full of love and concern throughout the whole movie and then at the reveal they just instantly switch to the cold dead eyes of a sociopath, which she obviously was. I just thought that was perfect.

All in all, I'd say it was a 9 to 9.5/movie. Much better than I anticipated, since I feel that anything catering on racism or other liberal hot topics of the day, get unfair advantages when it comes to ratings. Figured it'd be another trash movie with an edge and that's why critcs ate it up. Glad to admit that I was wrong though and I'm glad I didn't let my bias stop me from watching this film.

This post was edited by jadeoshbogosh on May 27 2017 01:55am