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‘Get Out’ Director Jordan Peele Developing More “Social Thrillers”

Published

7 years ago

February 22, 2017

Are you ready to Get Out this weekend?

Comedian Jordan Peele make his debut on the horror scene with Get Out, a Blumhouse-produced thriller that uses the genre to tackle pressing race issues that are particularly topical at this present moment. Peele’s fresh vision has been hailed as a masterpiece by most who have seen it, including our own Fred Topel, who wrote in his review that “Get Out gets in right.”

Furthermore, the film currently has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!

What’s next from Peele? Speaking with Arrow in the Head, he just expressed a desire to make more thrillers. In fact, he’s developing some more in the vein of Get Out.

I’ve been developing several different movies in the category I call ‘the social thriller.’ They all bite off of a different human demon. Get Out is about several things but obviously it’s about race… the next one will be about something else.

Peele also noted that he’s open to at some point making a sequel to Get Out.

In Get Out…

Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods).

At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

The film also stars Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men series), Milton “Lil Rel” Howery (The Carmichael Show), Betty Gabriel (The Purge: Election Year), Marcus Henderson (Pete’s Dragon) and Keith Stanfield (Straight Outta Compton).

Writer/director/producer JORDAN PEELE on the set of Universal Pictures’ “Get Out.”[Source] Arrow in the Head

Movies

Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

Published

12 hours ago

April 23, 2024

John Squires

After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.