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Get Out
On a suburban street at night, a Black man walks alone, talking on his phone. After a car approaches him, the man, sensing trouble, attempts to escape, but is subdued, dragged into the car and driven away.
Six months later, Black photographer Chris Washington travels to upstate New York for a weekend getaway to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. Upon arrival, he has uncomfortable conversations with Rose's father Dean, a neurosurgeon, and mother Missy, a psychiatrist. Later, Rose's brother Jeremy arrives, and Chris observes eerie behavior from the family's Black staff, Georgina and Walter.
Missy manipulates Chris into an individual hypnotherapy session, using the sound of a spoon stirring in a teacup as a hypnotic trigger, ostensibly to cure his smoking habit. While entranced, he reveals that his mother died in a hit-and-run when he was 11 years old; he feels partially responsible, as he delayed calling for help. At Missy's prompting, his consciousness falls into a dark void she dubs the "sunken place" where his body becomes temporarily paralyzed. The next morning, he finds that he no longer has a desire to smoke.
Dozens of wealthy white guests arrive for the Armitages' annual get-together and continually make uncomfortable remarks toward Chris. Chris meets blind art dealer Jim Hudson, who takes an interest in his photography, and a Black man named Logan King. Like Walter and Georgina, Logan behaves unnaturally, and is married to a white woman thirty years his senior. When Chris photographs Logan with flash on, Logan lunges toward Chris, frantically telling him to "get out." Dean removes him, later explaining the sudden erratic behavior as a seizure.
Chris confides in Rose about his worries, and both ultimately agree to return home. Meanwhile, as the party guests have a silent auction for a photo of him, Chris sends the photo of Logan to his friend, TSA officer Rod Williams. Rod recognizes Logan as Andre Hayworth, a missing man from Brooklyn (and the man who was taken in the opening scene). Chris discovers photos of Rose dating numerous Black individuals, including Walter and Georgina, and he tries to leave, but Jeremy and Dean block the doors. Rose, revealing herself as an accomplice, refuses to give him his keys, and Missy hypnotizes him back to the sunken place.
Awakening strapped to an armchair in the basement, Chris views a video in which Dean's father Roman explains that the Armitage family transplants the brains of wealthy white people into Black bodies to acquire their physical characteristics, leaving the host's consciousness trapped in the "sunken place". Jim then reveals that he is going to be transferred into Chris's body, but maintains that he does not care about the color of Chris's skin and only covets a body with working eyesight. Meanwhile, Rod consults the police, who laugh off his theory about the Armitages.
In another room, Dean begins the transplantation process, removing the top of Jim's skull. Jeremy arrives to retrieve Chris, who has seemingly been hypnotized by a clip of the teacup sound earlier, but Chris awakens and bludgeons him—having blocked the trigger by plugging his ears with cotton stuffing from the armchair. Chris kills Dean, who sets the operating room ablaze, then Missy, then Jeremy when he attacks again. Attempting to escape in Jeremy's Porsche, Chris accidentally hits Georgina, who possesses the brain of Rose's grandmother Marianne. Reminded of his own mother's death, Chris guiltily takes her into the car, but she reawakens and attacks him, causing the car to crash and kill her.
Rose and Walter, who possesses Roman's brain, arrive to capture Chris. During a scuffle, Chris uses his phone's flash to free Walter from Roman's control. Walter shoots Rose with her rifle, then fatally shoots himself. Chris begins strangling Rose, but relents when she manipulatively pleads for her life and promises she loves him. A police car arrives; Rose cries out for help, but Rod emerges from the car and picks up Chris, leaving Rose to bleed out on the road.
Us
In 1986, little Adelaide Thomas wanders away from her parents at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and enters a funhouse. She encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the house of mirrors. Following the encounter, she suddenly stops speaking, and withdraws from her family.
Thirty-three years later, Adelaide, now a woman, reluctantly joins her husband, Gabe Wilson, and their children, Zora and Jason, on a vacation. They are joined by friends, Josh and Kitty Tyler, along with their twin daughters, Becca and Lindsey, at the beach. During their outing, they observe paramedics removing the body of a man holding a sign that matches one Adelaide had seen on the day she encountered her doppelgänger, as a small girl. Later, Jason spots an individual bearing a striking resemblance to the deceased, motionless with outstretched arms and bloodied hands.
That night, Adelaide relays her story to Gabe, when the lights suddenly go out. Jason notices a family of four in the driveway, who break into the house and corner the Wilsons. The intruders are the Wilsons' doppelgängers: Red (Adelaide's doppelganger, who she met all those years ago), Pluto (Jason's pyromaniac, facially scarred double), Umbrae (Zora's sadistic double) and Abraham (Gabe's animalistic double). Red is the only double who can speak, albeit in a raspy voice. She explains that they are called "the Tethered", as they share a soul with their counterparts and have come to "untether" themselves. The Wilsons are separated and terrorized by their doppelgängers. Jason discovers that Pluto mirrors his actions. After Gabe kills Abraham, the family escapes.
Meanwhile, the Tyler family is attacked and murdered in their home by their doppelgängers. The Wilsons arrive and are attacked as well, but they manage to overpower and kill the Tylers' doubles. They watch the news and learn that the Tethered have been murdering their equivalents across the city then joining hands to form a human chain (similar to the one from the Hands Across America demonstration) that surrounds the city. The Wilsons decide to drive along the coast and escape to Mexico. While they are leaving, Umbrae intercepts the car but Zora throws her off the car and kills her; Adelaide goes separately to comfort Umbrae as she dies.
Arriving at the boardwalk, the Wilsons find many townspeople slaughtered. The road is blocked by a burning car. Jason, realizing it is a trap set by Pluto, orders everyone out of the car. Before Pluto can ignite the family's car, Jason walks backwards, causing Pluto to do the same and thus walk directly into the fire, to Adelaide's sadness. While the Wilsons are distracted by Pluto burning to death, Red appears and snatches Jason away. Adelaide chases Red to the funhouse where they first met and finds a secret entrance that leads to an underground facility overrun by white rabbits, where she finds Red in a classroom.
Red vaguely explains that the Tethered are duplicates created, presumably by the government, to control the populace. When the experiment failed, the Tethered were abandoned underground mindlessly mimicking the actions of their counterparts and surviving on raw rabbit meat. After the other doppelgängers realized Red was "different", when she snapped them out of their lethargy, she spent years organizing them to escape and take vengeance by murdering their counterparts. Red and Adelaide begin to fight, but Red evades and counters all of Adelaide's attacks. When Adelaide allows Red to attack, she impales Red with a fireplace poker, then strangles her and breaks her neck. She rescues Jason from a locker with Jason also rescuing one of the rabbits.
As she escapes in an ambulance with her family, Adelaide reflects back to the night she first met Red: it's revealed that she is the Tethered doppelgänger and that Red was the original Adelaide. The doppelgänger, having choked Adelaide unconscious, dragged and trapped her underground then returned to the surface to usurp her life. Jason looks at his mother who simply smiles, while the Tethered form a human chain that stretches across the countryside.
Nope
In Agua Dulce, California, the Haywood family trains and handles horses for film productions. One day, at their ranch, small metallic objects begin rapidly falling from the sky. A nickel strikes Otis Haywood Sr. in the head, killing him.
Six months later, Otis's children, Otis Jr. ("OJ") and Emerald ("Em") are fired from a production after their horse, Lucky, reacts disruptively to his reflection in a chrome ball used for visual effects. To raise money, OJ has been selling some of their horses to Ricky "Jupe" Park, a former child actor who operates a Western-themed amusement park called Jupiter's Claim. Jupe previously starred on Gordy's Home, a family sitcom about a chimpanzee named Gordy. During filming in 1998, one of the chimps who portrayed Gordy reacted violently to the sound of popping balloons and mauled most of the cast and crew before being shot. Jupe has since settled down with his wife, Amber, and their three sons, but now exploits his trauma from the event in the hopes of revitalizing his career.
One night, the Haywoods notice their electricity fluctuating and their horses aggressively reacting to an unknown presence. They discover an unidentified flying object (UFO) that has been taking their horses. The siblings decide to document and sell evidence of the UFO's existence, recruiting electronics store employee Angel Torres to set up surveillance cameras. The UFO arrives and abducts a horse that has broken out of the ranch stable, as well as a metal horse statue Em has stolen from Jupiter's Claim to act as a decoy. The next day, Em attempts to recruit famed cinematographer Antlers Holst to help them record the UFO. Holst declines, not wanting to encourage Em in what he considers an unfulfilling pursuit of wealth and fame. Angel arrives, having noticed while watching footage from the cameras a cloud in the valley that never moves; OJ suspects this is the UFO's hiding place before concluding, based on its flight patterns, that it may be a living creature.
After months of secretly offering the Haywoods' horses to the UFO to gain its trust and attempt to domesticate it, Jupe introduces a live show in Jupiter's Claim, intending to use Lucky as bait to lure out the UFO. The UFO arrives earlier than expected and consumes everyone in attendance, ultimately leaving only Lucky alive. While retrieving Lucky, OJ confirms his theory that the UFO is actually a territorial, predatory animal. After the creature showers the Haywood household with the regurgitated remains of the Jupiter's Claim crowd, OJ realizes that it only attacks those who look directly at it and devises a plan to record it. Em and Angel are hesitant until Em receives a call from Holst, who now agrees to help. OJ names the creature "Jean Jacket" after an unruly horse the Haywoods once owned.
To circumvent Jean Jacket's effect of shutting down all electrical equipment in its vicinity, Holst brings a hand-cranked film camera. The group sets up a field of battery-powered tube men to track its location. However, a TMZ reporter trespasses onto the field and is thrown from his electric motorcycle when it shuts down near Jean Jacket, which devours him shortly after. While capturing footage, Holst climbs a hill for a "better view" but instead sacrifices himself to be consumed along with his camera, but capturing footage of the creature. Angel narrowly escapes being eaten by Jean Jacket by wrapping himself in barbed wire. Jean Jacket then unfurls into a much larger form resembling a jellyfish.
OJ intentionally looks directly at Jean Jacket to distract it, allowing Em to rush to Jupiter's Claim on the motorcycle. There, she untethers the park's large helium balloon mascot of Jupe, whose winking eye attracts Jean Jacket's attention. Jean Jacket attempts to feed on the balloon while Em uses a manual camera from the park's coin-operated wishing well attraction to photograph it. After Jean Jacket swallows the balloon, it bursts, violently rupturing the creature's body from within and killing it. With photographic evidence of the creature's existence and reporters arriving nearby, Em sees OJ and Lucky standing outside Jupiter's Claim, unharmed.
On a suburban street at night, a Black man walks alone, talking on his phone. After a car approaches him, the man, sensing trouble, attempts to escape, but is subdued, dragged into the car and driven away.
Six months later, Black photographer Chris Washington travels to upstate New York for a weekend getaway to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. Upon arrival, he has uncomfortable conversations with Rose's father Dean, a neurosurgeon, and mother Missy, a psychiatrist. Later, Rose's brother Jeremy arrives, and Chris observes eerie behavior from the family's Black staff, Georgina and Walter.
Missy manipulates Chris into an individual hypnotherapy session, using the sound of a spoon stirring in a teacup as a hypnotic trigger, ostensibly to cure his smoking habit. While entranced, he reveals that his mother died in a hit-and-run when he was 11 years old; he feels partially responsible, as he delayed calling for help. At Missy's prompting, his consciousness falls into a dark void she dubs the "sunken place" where his body becomes temporarily paralyzed. The next morning, he finds that he no longer has a desire to smoke.
Dozens of wealthy white guests arrive for the Armitages' annual get-together and continually make uncomfortable remarks toward Chris. Chris meets blind art dealer Jim Hudson, who takes an interest in his photography, and a Black man named Logan King. Like Walter and Georgina, Logan behaves unnaturally, and is married to a white woman thirty years his senior. When Chris photographs Logan with flash on, Logan lunges toward Chris, frantically telling him to "get out." Dean removes him, later explaining the sudden erratic behavior as a seizure.
Chris confides in Rose about his worries, and both ultimately agree to return home. Meanwhile, as the party guests have a silent auction for a photo of him, Chris sends the photo of Logan to his friend, TSA officer Rod Williams. Rod recognizes Logan as Andre Hayworth, a missing man from Brooklyn (and the man who was taken in the opening scene). Chris discovers photos of Rose dating numerous Black individuals, including Walter and Georgina, and he tries to leave, but Jeremy and Dean block the doors. Rose, revealing herself as an accomplice, refuses to give him his keys, and Missy hypnotizes him back to the sunken place.
Awakening strapped to an armchair in the basement, Chris views a video in which Dean's father Roman explains that the Armitage family transplants the brains of wealthy white people into Black bodies to acquire their physical characteristics, leaving the host's consciousness trapped in the "sunken place". Jim then reveals that he is going to be transferred into Chris's body, but maintains that he does not care about the color of Chris's skin and only covets a body with working eyesight. Meanwhile, Rod consults the police, who laugh off his theory about the Armitages.
In another room, Dean begins the transplantation process, removing the top of Jim's skull. Jeremy arrives to retrieve Chris, who has seemingly been hypnotized by a clip of the teacup sound earlier, but Chris awakens and bludgeons him—having blocked the trigger by plugging his ears with cotton stuffing from the armchair. Chris kills Dean, who sets the operating room ablaze, then Missy, then Jeremy when he attacks again. Attempting to escape in Jeremy's Porsche, Chris accidentally hits Georgina, who possesses the brain of Rose's grandmother Marianne. Reminded of his own mother's death, Chris guiltily takes her into the car, but she reawakens and attacks him, causing the car to crash and kill her.
Rose and Walter, who possesses Roman's brain, arrive to capture Chris. During a scuffle, Chris uses his phone's flash to free Walter from Roman's control. Walter shoots Rose with her rifle, then fatally shoots himself. Chris begins strangling Rose, but relents when she manipulatively pleads for her life and promises she loves him. A police car arrives; Rose cries out for help, but Rod emerges from the car and picks up Chris, leaving Rose to bleed out on the road.
Us
In 1986, little Adelaide Thomas wanders away from her parents at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and enters a funhouse. She encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the house of mirrors. Following the encounter, she suddenly stops speaking, and withdraws from her family.
Thirty-three years later, Adelaide, now a woman, reluctantly joins her husband, Gabe Wilson, and their children, Zora and Jason, on a vacation. They are joined by friends, Josh and Kitty Tyler, along with their twin daughters, Becca and Lindsey, at the beach. During their outing, they observe paramedics removing the body of a man holding a sign that matches one Adelaide had seen on the day she encountered her doppelgänger, as a small girl. Later, Jason spots an individual bearing a striking resemblance to the deceased, motionless with outstretched arms and bloodied hands.
That night, Adelaide relays her story to Gabe, when the lights suddenly go out. Jason notices a family of four in the driveway, who break into the house and corner the Wilsons. The intruders are the Wilsons' doppelgängers: Red (Adelaide's doppelganger, who she met all those years ago), Pluto (Jason's pyromaniac, facially scarred double), Umbrae (Zora's sadistic double) and Abraham (Gabe's animalistic double). Red is the only double who can speak, albeit in a raspy voice. She explains that they are called "the Tethered", as they share a soul with their counterparts and have come to "untether" themselves. The Wilsons are separated and terrorized by their doppelgängers. Jason discovers that Pluto mirrors his actions. After Gabe kills Abraham, the family escapes.
Meanwhile, the Tyler family is attacked and murdered in their home by their doppelgängers. The Wilsons arrive and are attacked as well, but they manage to overpower and kill the Tylers' doubles. They watch the news and learn that the Tethered have been murdering their equivalents across the city then joining hands to form a human chain (similar to the one from the Hands Across America demonstration) that surrounds the city. The Wilsons decide to drive along the coast and escape to Mexico. While they are leaving, Umbrae intercepts the car but Zora throws her off the car and kills her; Adelaide goes separately to comfort Umbrae as she dies.
Arriving at the boardwalk, the Wilsons find many townspeople slaughtered. The road is blocked by a burning car. Jason, realizing it is a trap set by Pluto, orders everyone out of the car. Before Pluto can ignite the family's car, Jason walks backwards, causing Pluto to do the same and thus walk directly into the fire, to Adelaide's sadness. While the Wilsons are distracted by Pluto burning to death, Red appears and snatches Jason away. Adelaide chases Red to the funhouse where they first met and finds a secret entrance that leads to an underground facility overrun by white rabbits, where she finds Red in a classroom.
Red vaguely explains that the Tethered are duplicates created, presumably by the government, to control the populace. When the experiment failed, the Tethered were abandoned underground mindlessly mimicking the actions of their counterparts and surviving on raw rabbit meat. After the other doppelgängers realized Red was "different", when she snapped them out of their lethargy, she spent years organizing them to escape and take vengeance by murdering their counterparts. Red and Adelaide begin to fight, but Red evades and counters all of Adelaide's attacks. When Adelaide allows Red to attack, she impales Red with a fireplace poker, then strangles her and breaks her neck. She rescues Jason from a locker with Jason also rescuing one of the rabbits.
As she escapes in an ambulance with her family, Adelaide reflects back to the night she first met Red: it's revealed that she is the Tethered doppelgänger and that Red was the original Adelaide. The doppelgänger, having choked Adelaide unconscious, dragged and trapped her underground then returned to the surface to usurp her life. Jason looks at his mother who simply smiles, while the Tethered form a human chain that stretches across the countryside.
Nope
In Agua Dulce, California, the Haywood family trains and handles horses for film productions. One day, at their ranch, small metallic objects begin rapidly falling from the sky. A nickel strikes Otis Haywood Sr. in the head, killing him.
Six months later, Otis's children, Otis Jr. ("OJ") and Emerald ("Em") are fired from a production after their horse, Lucky, reacts disruptively to his reflection in a chrome ball used for visual effects. To raise money, OJ has been selling some of their horses to Ricky "Jupe" Park, a former child actor who operates a Western-themed amusement park called Jupiter's Claim. Jupe previously starred on Gordy's Home, a family sitcom about a chimpanzee named Gordy. During filming in 1998, one of the chimps who portrayed Gordy reacted violently to the sound of popping balloons and mauled most of the cast and crew before being shot. Jupe has since settled down with his wife, Amber, and their three sons, but now exploits his trauma from the event in the hopes of revitalizing his career.
One night, the Haywoods notice their electricity fluctuating and their horses aggressively reacting to an unknown presence. They discover an unidentified flying object (UFO) that has been taking their horses. The siblings decide to document and sell evidence of the UFO's existence, recruiting electronics store employee Angel Torres to set up surveillance cameras. The UFO arrives and abducts a horse that has broken out of the ranch stable, as well as a metal horse statue Em has stolen from Jupiter's Claim to act as a decoy. The next day, Em attempts to recruit famed cinematographer Antlers Holst to help them record the UFO. Holst declines, not wanting to encourage Em in what he considers an unfulfilling pursuit of wealth and fame. Angel arrives, having noticed while watching footage from the cameras a cloud in the valley that never moves; OJ suspects this is the UFO's hiding place before concluding, based on its flight patterns, that it may be a living creature.
After months of secretly offering the Haywoods' horses to the UFO to gain its trust and attempt to domesticate it, Jupe introduces a live show in Jupiter's Claim, intending to use Lucky as bait to lure out the UFO. The UFO arrives earlier than expected and consumes everyone in attendance, ultimately leaving only Lucky alive. While retrieving Lucky, OJ confirms his theory that the UFO is actually a territorial, predatory animal. After the creature showers the Haywood household with the regurgitated remains of the Jupiter's Claim crowd, OJ realizes that it only attacks those who look directly at it and devises a plan to record it. Em and Angel are hesitant until Em receives a call from Holst, who now agrees to help. OJ names the creature "Jean Jacket" after an unruly horse the Haywoods once owned.
To circumvent Jean Jacket's effect of shutting down all electrical equipment in its vicinity, Holst brings a hand-cranked film camera. The group sets up a field of battery-powered tube men to track its location. However, a TMZ reporter trespasses onto the field and is thrown from his electric motorcycle when it shuts down near Jean Jacket, which devours him shortly after. While capturing footage, Holst climbs a hill for a "better view" but instead sacrifices himself to be consumed along with his camera, but capturing footage of the creature. Angel narrowly escapes being eaten by Jean Jacket by wrapping himself in barbed wire. Jean Jacket then unfurls into a much larger form resembling a jellyfish.
OJ intentionally looks directly at Jean Jacket to distract it, allowing Em to rush to Jupiter's Claim on the motorcycle. There, she untethers the park's large helium balloon mascot of Jupe, whose winking eye attracts Jean Jacket's attention. Jean Jacket attempts to feed on the balloon while Em uses a manual camera from the park's coin-operated wishing well attraction to photograph it. After Jean Jacket swallows the balloon, it bursts, violently rupturing the creature's body from within and killing it. With photographic evidence of the creature's existence and reporters arriving nearby, Em sees OJ and Lucky standing outside Jupiter's Claim, unharmed.
Sources and content license
Source and revision history ↗ · Exact listed stories combined in catalog order. Sources retain their stated license; formatting and headings adjusted. Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Get Out. Section headings and formatting adjusted. Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Us (2019 film). Section headings and formatting adjusted. Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Nope (film). Section headings and formatting adjusted. · Content license