Get out

There are two types of horror films: the ones that aim to scare you right there in the movie theatre, and the ones that aim to scare you when the movie finishes. Get Out is the second type. Even if it is one of the best horror movies in recent years, you wouldn't really find yourself jumping in your seat very often. Instead, it will creep in your brain and haunt you because the source of fear in this film is something very real.

Jordan Peele bends gender structures to point out one of the issues that people are (or at least should be) most worried about right now: the new rise of white supremacism. The story of Chris, an african-american guy who is spending a weekend at his white girlfriend's family home is the catalyst to show all levels of racism that non-whites suffer everyday: from the stereotyping of "is it true that blacks are best endowed?" to the most letal belief that black lives are expendables for the sake of white lives. It is even more powerful because it targets a white society that truly believes that racism is a thing of the past and that they, themselves, are very far from racism, a society that thinks that voting for Obama and dancing to Beyoncé makes them immune of racial hate.

Peele is great at making all those social statements while constructing a dark tale full of tension, it takes time with the characters and knows on what dose reveal things to keep us intrigued, we know there's something wrong in that house but we discover it along with the protagonist, each twist it's surprising and truly plausible. It's an amazing debut and the promise of a new voice in horror films, one that knows that zombies, ghosts and vampires are nothing compared to the horrors that human beings do every day.