Horror Film About Racism Earns Coveted 100 Percent On Rotten Tomatoes
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From: Huffington Post Black Voices
Written By: Carla Herreria
Herreria writes:
“‘Get Out,’ a psychological thriller about racism written and directed by Peele, earned a coveted 100-percent score on the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.”
In a recent post, “Horror Film About Racism Earns Coveted 100 Percent On Rotten Tomatoes,” Carla Herreria expresses critics’ reviews in a newly released horror film titled Get Out that frames racism as the central plot.
The author also quotes Jordan Peele:
“It just seemed to be a very taboo piece of the discussion to talk about something so horrific as racism in any type of genre other than a film about slavery or something.”
Finally, she quotes Variety critic Peter Debruge’s review:
“[The film] delivers ‘a gloriously twisted thriller that simultaneously has so much to say about the state of affairs in post-Obama America.’”
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