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This is almost like a horror movie about racism, agree?


Imagine if any typically anti-racism themed film, which for the most part is likely to be a social drama, be it Crash, or American History X or any of the classic Sidney Poitier movies, was filmed like a horror movie or a violent thriller as such akin to Saw or Hostel movies, but in this case without too much blood, and this is sort of what this movie "Get Out" is, a horror movie about racism or a racism-themed horror movie?

Its almost like, even if such comparison may not be too valid as they are very different movies overall, if you remember how "The Devil's Advocate" (1997) with Al Pacino was basically a law horror movie which was metaphorically about the dark sides of the lawyer profession, and it was filmed and told as a surreal supernatural horror thriller, well, this movie is basically a racially-themed horror thriller movie about the dark and destructive aspects of racism.

Agree?

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