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Jordan Peele Explains Why He Sees ‘Us’ as Something of a Dark Easter Movie
Jordan Peele‘s Us, now available on home video, shows us a shot of rabbits locked in cages over the opening credits, and the rabbit imagery pops up throughout the film; particularly in the underground lair of the “Tethered,” who consume rabbits as their primary source of food. What’s the meaning behind that imagery, you may have asked yourself while watching?
In the special features found on the film’s Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD release, Peele digs a bit into the symbolism of the rabbits, referring to Us as something of a “dark Easter” tale.
“The animals in my stories represent this battle between science and religion for me. I tend to like to explore the gray area where religion and magic and the unexplainable meet science. Between the two you have an abomination… a metaphor for humanity,” Peele explains. “One of the motifs of this movie is the rabbits. They symbolize a lot of different things.”
He continues, “The main connection to me was Easter. This story is a dark Easter of sorts. Red is the messiah who’s rising from the hole that she was left for dead.”
So there you have it, straight from the man himself. Looking for a great horror movie you can watch every year on Easter Sunday? Jordan Peele has got you covered with Us!
The home video release is packed with special features, including deleted scenes and several different featurettes, so be sure to grab a copy if you want to dig even deeper.
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After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
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