Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
NOTE: the screenplay is actually by Jordan Peele. This is another situation where some chump decides to make a quick buck by selling someone else’s screenplay. I would have used the annotated version for my review but that one comes with a lot of extra stuff and has 100 pages more than the pdf I read online.
4.5/5
This is a great film and screenplay. It was well thought out and a great piece of horror and commentary. It loses the star/half-star because the original screenplay had an ending different from the Final Cut of the film. The ending in the original screenplay is meh and I’m so glad it got changed when it was put on film. The pacing of the ending sequence though is impeccable, especially since it is built with some bulky action lines. The opening scene of the screenplay is also different from the movie so be prepared, you are reading the right film.