So much of it is the ability to pinpoint what an audience is going through at that very moment.
Melanie buys a pair of lovebirds and brings them to Mitchs family home in Bodega Bay, CA.
Peele says the movie hit almost too close to home and scared him growing up.
Billy Zane starred opposite Peele’s favorite final girl (Jada Pinkett Smith) inTales From the Crypt: Demon Knight(1995).
It remains one of his favorite horror movies.
Jaws (1975)
Jawsrepresented a total shift in monster movies and creature features.
Famously, the shark doesnt appear until an hour and twenty-one minutes into the two-hour film.
Shelley Duvall, shout out.
The 80s classic is about space aliens who escape prison on an asteroid to wreak havoc on Earth.
When he attempts to escape, he discovers how far shell go to hold him hostage.
Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren werebasically tortured on setin order to make this horror movie.
Forty years later, a mute woman with amnesia is discovered who bears a resemblance to the murdered woman.
A private detective investigates the case and falls in love with her.
Candyman (1992)
Peele has said that withoutCandymanthere probably wouldnt be aGet Out.
The fact that Jordan Peele could relate to Mia Farrow inRosemary’s Babymade him realize he could make a horror movie with a black man as a protagonist and people would relate to that character as well.
He loves the movie so much he cowrote and executive-produced aspiritual sequel in 2021directed by Nia DaCosta.
The original supernatural horror movie also tackled social issues such as gentrification and racism.
Her new roommate is The Collector, a demon searching for a key.
You don’t have to see a shark to immediately understand what everyone on this beach is running from. That gave Jordan Peele an idea about how he could make a movie about racism.
And that wouldnt be breaking the reality; it would actually be grounding it.
The home-invasion movie starts with two men imposing themselves on a wealthy family at their vacation home.
The film follows a girl after she is released from a mental institution and returns home to her family.
You can tell from the imagery of white suburbia inGet Out(2017) that one of Peele’s inspirations wasThe Stepford Wives(1975).
The two form a friendship that persists even after the boy learns that his new friend is a vampire.
The friendship helps Lucie, as she is continually tormented by what happened to her.
The film wasremade in English in 2015.
“Curious” is actually how director John Carpenter described Michael Myers, directing the actor wearing the mask to look at his victims like a collector gazing at a “pinned butterfly.”
The period film follows a family of banished Puritans struggling to survive on their own.
Not only does the family battle against the elements, paranoia causes them to turn on each other.
Jordan Peele likesThe Shiningso much he evendressed like Jack Torrancewhile on the press tour forUs.
Sometimes we have a special love for thehorror movies we saw as children.
What’s scarier than a white woman who has never learned how to take ‘no’ for an answer?
Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson star inDead Again.
A white woman becomes embroiled with the urban legend of the Candyman.
Billy Zane and Jada Pinkett Smith inTales From the Crypt: Demon Knight.
Peele’s favorite final girl also appeared inScream 2, where she told director Wes Craven to give her the most gruesome death scene of all time.
Funny Gamesis considered one of thebest home-invasion moviesof all time.
A Tale of Two Sistersis considered one of thebest Korean horror moviesof the modern era.
Let the Right One Inis both a scary vampire movie and a cute story about platonic childhood friendship.
Martyrs(2008) is part of theNew French Extremity movement.
Anya Taylor-Joy inThe VVitch.
