Young African-American photographer Daniel Kaluuya’s understandably on edge about visiting to his white girlfriend Allison Williams' posh parents
Young African-American photographer Daniel Kaluuya’s understandably on edge about visiting to his white girlfriend Allison Williams' posh parents.
However, when he arrives at wealthy Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener’s swanky home, he has no idea quite how unsettling the weekend will turn out to be…
This is a terrific feature debut from writer-director Jordan Peele (of TV sketch show duo Key & Peele), a provocative, deeply creepy horror thriller that pushes racially sensitive buttons with fiendish skill and darkly comic wit.
British-Ugandan Kaluuya makes a hugely sympathetic lead, Williams drips posh suavity and Whitford and Keener are spot on as the ostentatiously liberal, Obama-voting parents.
Peele handles his film's tonal shifts brilliantly, the mood changing eerily from a modern Guess Who's Coming to Dinner to a latter-day Stepford Wives as toe-curling social discomfort gives way to prickling unease and jolting jump scares.
