ORDAN PEELE'S ANTIRACIST HORROR FILM GET OUT (2017) TELLS THE story of a black man, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), who goes to spend the weekend with the wealthy, seemingly liberal family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Allison Williams). As the film progresses, Chris and the audience slowly learn that the Armitages are engaged in a modern-day slave trade in which they steal black people and implant the brains of rich elderly or sick white people into the "superior" black bodies. The black victims are then doomed to live out the rest of their days in "the sunken place," a state of semiconsciousness where they helplessly watch as their bodies are controlled by their new white owners. Peele has designated Get Out a "social thriller," and to mark its release, he curated a film series called "Jordan Peele: The Art of the Social Thriller" for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The series screened a diverse mix of films that Peele cited as influences on his own work. The films include classic horror movies like Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Shining (1980) as well as important horror films with predominant black characters like Night of the Living Dead (1968), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and Candyman (1992). Peele also included the social problem film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Joe Dante's manic suburban satire The 'Burbs (1989), and Wes Craven's meta-cinematic slasher parody Scream (1996). The series was advertised as "the perfect primer to get you ready to Get Out." Indeed, the eclectic mix of films
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