Us Review
The thing that I liked the most about this movie is that it was a horror movie by default. Jordan Peele, much like Alfred Hitchcock or even John Carpenter, transcends his genre yet is still an auteur of (or is at least drawn to) it. Granted that every director has a genre which inspires them to extract the best stories from them. Christopher Nolan has Science Fiction (at least throughout the 10s) while Ang Lee seems to have epic dramas/romances. But what makes this movie really work as a horror movie is almost for the same reason Wendigo did: it draws strictly from American history, if not culture. And although it does successfully bring back a popular trope from 90s horror flicks it does it in a way that is so enigmatic it feels like horror but at the same time it doesn’t. Almost more like the way Psycho did it than the movies which were released three decades later.