Genre Research: Get Out

   For the next film I decided to analyze I chose the movie Get Out. Get Out came out in 2017 and was produced by Jordan Peele.This movie was more a psychological thriller but I decided this would be great to study since it is undoubtedly considered a thriller. Get out was a movie about a racist family that invites the daughter’s boyfriend over to perform illegal surgeries to transform him into a slave.  The film was unique, innovative, surprising and overall suspenseful. The film challenged thriller conventions by bringing inhistory of slaves and racism, which is not presented in most thriller films.

      The camera work on this film was well done. This was not an action film so there wasn’t many intense action scenes. Most shots were medium but some low angles, pans, eye-level, and many close shots were used. One scene, where the mother was trying to hypnotize the boyfriend had a very psychedelic and overall uneasiness mood due to the zooms and speed. Most characters dressed relatively normal, but some of the older white people dressed like old people; hats, scarves, stockings, etc. The lighting was normal for the majority of the movie, matching the setting, but some scenes such as the medical scene had low lighting as well as the night scenes were dim. The acting was spectacular in this film. Daniel Kaluuya starred in the film as Chris, where he did a phenomenal job. He portrayed his character as the confused boyfriend but he made such an emotional impression, even the audience was confused. The makeup was normal again except wounds such as cuts. The props featured were everyday household objects since he was in a house. This is common for horror or thriller movies. The setting was in upstate New York but was in a rural neighborhood in a forest. The sound was great in this film.The film featured songs from Childish Gambino and Bill Medley. They used a suspenseful score to elevate the mood they were trying to interpret. Although the music during suspenseful scenes set the tone for the film. There were some piano songs and some snare drums playing during close shots to show emotion. The editing used many cross cutting and montages as well as establishing shots. They used a lot of reaction shots and close shots go show Chris’ reaction while absorbing his environment The overall production of the movie did a good job of dropping clues of a bigger picture which is what makes this film stand out so much. 

       This movie was under the horror sub genre of Thrillers. The conventions shown in Thrillers, suspense, violence, and plot twists, were all shown throughout the film. I liked that the film was intense and mind-bending. The film challenged the conventions of a thriller by adding a political perspective with the racist element of a horror-thriller film.