Get Out (2017, United States, dir. Jordan Peele) is an allegory for the experience of being black in America, one that 'tells it like it is' in the parlance of the 1960s Black Power movement: the daily toll of microaggressions, the objectification of the black body for white ends, and the devaluation of human dignity, or what Ta-Nehisi Coates calls 'the plunder of black life' as the default setting for American national identity (2015, 111). The film's central image of this experience is the 'sunken place,' a form of social death (Patterson 1982) that the film represents as a void within which black subjectivity is constricted and isolated while a white person controls his/her fate. To depict this, the film uses strategies of terror to produce moments of subjective intensity, which align the viewer with the protagonist's perspective (Hanich 2010), and to construct the moral monsters that would systematically degrade a class of human beings without remorse (see Baldwin in