Get Out

It is rare for a horror film to be as well received as Get Out from debutant director Jordan Peele. Not only did movie theatres fill up, with the film bringing in over $250 million worldwide, film critics and festival juries also responded enthusiastically: Get Out won 152 international film awards, including an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, which Peele wrote himself.

Black photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is going to meet the parents of his new girlfriend, white Rose Armitage - a visit he dreads considerably. And rightly so; her parents Dean and Missy constantly talk about coloured people, while housekeeper Georgina and groundskeeper Walter also display strange behaviour. At night, he cannot sleep and goes downstairs, where he runs into Missy. She is a hypnotherapist and offers to help him get rid of his smoking addiction through hypnosis. She leads him to a mental place she calls the Sunken Place - a place you should never go, it later becomes clear...