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Horror Film: Get Out as America's Mirror
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Eric Piepenburg, the NYT horror film writer, makes the case that only America could produce Get Out — a film that weaponizes the genre against liberal America's self-image. The monster isn't some external threat; it's the racism that well-meaning, progressive Americans convinced themselves they'd transcended. Piepenburg's nomination is a pointed one: the most American horror film is about the horror of American self-delusion. Kevin Roose briefly follows with Amazon Prime as the most American technology, defined by a premise so fundamentally American it almost doesn't need explaining: people want things fast, cheap, and all the time.
Jordan Peele's Get Out doesn't scare you with a monster from outside — it tells so-called post-racial, liberal America that the monster it thought it had defeated is still very much alive. Eric Piepenburg argues only America could produce a horror film that holds a mirror up to its own most flattering self-image.
