Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date's liberal family in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," writer-director Jordan Peele has crafted a similar confrontation with altogether more combustible results in "Get Out".

Something clearly is off, though Peele takes his time letting the mystery thicken.

It's long been a lamentable joke that in horror films – never the most inclusive of genres – the black dude is always the first to go.

The movie is entirely from Chris' point of view.

Peele originally conceived his long-planned film as an Obama-era horror, one that revealed the hidden racism that the country had supposedly overcome.

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