Get Out Film Critique - Joseph Dillard

Get Out was an interesting film to watch - Some of my comments on the horror aspect that it was

done well, and overly avoided the stereotypes of the genre (Jumpscares) but it seemed to rely on

audio stingers instead, which still give that same kind of feeling. I think that without the humor

that Jordan interjects into the film it would be worse off. If we didn’t have any break in the

action, or the atmosphere, we would become too used to the horror and the thriller if we didn’t

have any break, almost using it as a way to defuse the situation, albeit temporary. Great use of

the ‘defuse’ way of humor is at the very end when Chris and Rod are in the car, and Rod tells

Chris that he shouldn’t of went into the house is a great defuse of the last ten or so minutes -

Really, any scene with Rod does well to relax us for a moment before putting us into the thick of

it again. I think it also goes to show a different angle, that one man’s nightmare is another man’s

laughing fit, that there’s always something in life to laugh at, no matter how twisted it becomes.