Jordan Peele’s first horror movie is creeping up the streaming charts eight years after it was first released in theaters. Peele, who was already an Emmy-winner for his Comedy Central sketch show Key and Peele, won his first Academy Award for the screenplay for the psychological horror-mystery-thriller Get Out. Peele also directed and produced the 2017 film.
Now, as of July 6, Get Out is making its way up HBO’s Top 10 Movies and, per FlixPatrol, currently sits in the No. 7 spot. Get Out stars Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah), Allison Williams (M3GAN 2.0), Emmy-winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Stephen Root, Lil Rel Howery, and Richard Herd.
Things take a Mysterious and Racist Turn in Get Out
Kaluuya plays Chris Washington, a young Black man who takes a trip to upstate New York to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Williams). While the family seems to be accommodating, albeit awkward, at first, things take a turn when Chris figures out that the Armitage family is far more sinister and racist than he could have ever imagined.
Get Out had a modest budget of $4.5 million and was a massive hit at the box office upon its release, earning more than $255 million worldwide and solidifying Peele as a force to be reckoned with in the horror genre. After Get Out, the former comedy star wrote and directed the 2019 horror film Us, starring Lupita Nyong’o and Elisabeth Moss. He then wrote and directed the alien invasion/horror flick Nope (2022), which also starred Kaluuya as well as Keke Palmer. Both films were successful in their own right, with Us earning $256 million worldwide and Nope $171.2 million.
Get Out (2017)
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Worldwide Box Office Earnings |
Budget |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score |
IMDb Rating |
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$255.7 million |
$4.5 million |
98% |
86% |
7.8/10 |
Get Out is One of the Best Movies of the Century
While he has had success with his follow-ups, Peele’s Get Out, which boasts a 98% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, is considered some of his best work. Recently, Get Out was named one of the best movies of the 21st century, per a list published by the New York Times. The new list consisted of the top movies of the past 25 years, according to 500 actors and directors.
Get Out took the No. 8 spot on the list for the overall best movies of the last quarter of a century, which was the highest of any horror movie.
Peele’s Thoughts on Get Out
Peele discussed the film and its racial undertones in an interview with the LA Times back in 2017. “Using the darkness of my imagination, there were so many ways this movie could go wrong,” Peele began. “I thought, ‘What if white people don’t want to come see the movie because they’re afraid of being villain-ized with black people in the crowd? What if Black people don’t want to see this movie because they don’t want to sit next to a white person while a black person is being victimized on-screen?’ All those questions were in my mind,” he said.
Peele added, “I think people are scared to talk about race when we suppress things — ideas, thoughts, feelings, fears — they need to get out in some way. I think Get Out is a film that satisfies the need to think about, discuss, and deal with race, but it does it in a way that’s more comfortable because it’s fun.”
Get Out is streaming on HBO Max.
