The Moviepilot editorial team has chosen the 100 best films of the last decade. Of course, a horror film cannot be missing from the 10 best films and we quickly agreed on which representative has taken the genre to a new level in the last 10 years: Jordan Peele’s debut film Get Out.
It just climbed to number 2 on Netflix and you have to see this cinematic masterpiece – whether you are horror fans or not.
Facts about Get Out
Now on Netflix: Get Out is the most important horror film of the last decade
Let’s start with the obvious. Get Out is the most relevant horror film of the past decade, which, like no other film in the genre, was able to capture the current racism against people of color on screen in a satirical way. omnipresent fear, anxiety and unease that people of color feel every day, especially in the USAbecomes tangible for all people through the mechanisms of horror.
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Get Out: it doesn’t get more overwhelming than this
In a genre that is branded by eternal variation and repetition, Get Out feels, despite familiar genre tropes fresh and original Much more lasting than the relevant social criticism and the twist-filled story in the style of The Stepford Wives, however, is Jordan Peele’s production, which plays with the collective subconscious of the audience and allows the horror to arise subliminally in the mind.
Peele achieves this through numerous hidden clues and detailsthat are not noticed the first time. Be it small gestures of the characters, patterns and symbols in the background or the colors of the costumes: in Get Out there is something to discover and interpret after many viewings.
I also had to throw my hands up in the air several times, when I saw Get Out for the second time and realized that the film throws countless clues to the ending at us that were previously unnoticeable. You have to watch the horror thriller over and over again to absorb every detail.
Get Out is so much more than a scary horror film
The Horror genre has always had a hard timeto find recognition. Especially when representatives of the genre were praised in reviews or awarded prizes, critical voices were not far away who wanted to deny the film its genre. Carrie, The Exorcist and Jaws are just a few examples of successes that were too good to be recognized as horror films.
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Get Out is scary and surprising
And Get Out also falls into this category. Many viewers don’t want to call it a horror film because it doesn’t seem scary enough to them. The film’s makers contributed to this discussion when Get Out was up for the Golden Globes in the Best Comedy category.
Jordan Peele himself described his work as “Social Thriller”perhaps out of fear of the shitstorm of horror moaners who also only want to see the scary mindfuck Hereditary as a drama. But Get Out is without question a horror film, because it interweaves a satirical view of racism with classic horror motifs and jump scares. But it is so much more than a horror film, which is why it is easy to skip this side.
Horror films represent the People’s fears to the foreground in order to create an uncomfortable feeling. And that is exactly what Get Out does through the recurring everyday racism and an unpleasant atmosphere that escalates steadily over the course of the film until the bloody finale.
Get Out is available to stream on Netflix with a subscription.