After sending shockwaves across contemporary culture and setting a new standard for provocative, socially-conscious horror films with his directorial debut, “Get Out,” Academy Award®-winning visionary Jordan Peele returns with another original nightmare that he has written, directed and produced.
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Today, in advance of what is surely a Super Bowl appearance, Peele has released a new trailer for his latest new nightmare and social horror on Reddit to many unexpected fans.
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Here’s the synopsis:
Set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline, Us, from Monkeypaw Productions, stars Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Black Panther’s Winston Duke), and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway.
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Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
Peele has said “Us” is influenced by an eclectic mix of horror movies including “Dead Again,” “The Shining,” “The Babadook,” “It Follows,” “A Tale of Two Sisters,” “The Birds,” “Funny Games,” “Martyrs,” “Let the Right One In,” and “The Sixth Sense.”
“I’m such a horror nut that the genre confusion of ‘Get Out’ broke my heart a little,” Peele revealed in a recent interview. “I set out to make a horror movie, and it’s kind of not a horror movie. As a horror fan, I really wanted to contribute something to that world.”
Writer and director Peele produces for his Monkeypaw Productions alongside Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, and Monkeypaw’s Ian Cooper. “Us” will be released by Universal Pictures on Friday, March 22, but will debut earlier at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival starting March 8.
Trailer number 2. #UsMovie https://t.co/tTn9A7aVpm
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) February 3, 2019