Get Out (2017)

"Get Out" it's representative for the reason why I don't have anymore so many horror entries on my blog. It's either rehashing stuff (this case) or something where horror is defined as buckets of blood (fortunately not this case).

The story: We have a girl (white) with her boyfriend (black) who decides to introduce him to her parents. And like this we're landing somewhere in a countryside community, where there's a heavy air of racial segregation. It's not really clear if we're in the South or in the North of USA (well, at least for me it's not). In any case we have a mansion where the parents reside - the father - a neurosurgeon and the mother - a shrink (again, it's not very clear what two professing doctors do in the middle of nowhere, but let's say we get the reason at the end of the movie). We also have two black servants with a strange behavior. And we also have a sort of local party at the mansion where lots of white folks gather + an even weirder black guy. Well, even so, it takes almost three quarters of a movie of the boyfriend resisting the weirdness around and lots of offensive remarks (some of which a bit too subtle) + an involuntary session of hypnosis that sticks better than a tube of super glue, until the guy cracks and wants to go home. Well, of course he won't be able... Let's not spoil though the last quarter of the movie, anyway's not much to be seen there.

The reason why "Get Out" got some astronomic ratings on most of the sites in the US for the genre it has it's the light "politically correctness" part = we have a movie that bets a lot on the racial discrimination card, a topic that doesn't really work for me in a horror, especially one with this script. On the rehashed stuff side I can refer to "The Skeleton Key" from 2005, a much darker movie (I would say even too dark if I think about the ending), where the essence of the story is not that far, but the roles (racially speaking) were sort of reversed if I remember well (which isn't so "politically correct") but well... the movie does what it has to do = delivers a horror story, the skin color is not that important there. Also on the rehashed stuff side, the generic idea of getting trapped & used somewhere in a remote location is so often met that you need something super original to overcome this context. And unfortunately the 15-20 minutes of movie that are left for this don't deliver anything above average. If you want an example of a horror that does this, check out "The Cabin in the Woods", and if you want a decent movie on racial issues you can start with "12 Years a Slave" (there's horror there too, but not the "having fun" type).

Rating: 3 out of 5 (I didn't say the movie's bad, just too overrated for something that doesn't raise above the average of the genre)