Many have called Peele the new Alfred Hitchcock. More spooky twins appear in this South Korean import, about two sisters suspicious of their father’s new bride.

It Follows (2015)Īnother recent movie that many have praised for taking a fresh new twist to the horror genre, ‘It Follows’ uses a supernatural killer as an analogy for an STD, with the force being passed on sexually from one person to the next, but should the force kill a victim, it will then work its way back and go after the person that passed it to them and so on. It has gained a reputation as one of the scariest movies in recent years. The plot follows a widow, raising her son alone, who becomes haunted by what she thinks is a monster from a children’s book.

This creepy film boomed after it was released in DVD and Blu-Ray, gaining a massive following online. Were the spooky twins in the hallway an inspiration for the somersaulting twin daughters of the Wilsons’ friends Kitty and Josh? The Babadook (2014): Speaking of influences, Peele has credited this picture as one of his biggest. ‘The Shining’ also centers on a family, as they become influenced by supernatural forces, with one of them being more attuned than the others. Like ‘Us’ it takes place at a resort, although definitely a much chillier location. Stanley Kubrick’s Stephen King adaptation is Horror 101. If you’ve seen ‘Us’, your eyes will immediately be drawn to all those scissors! There’s even a coffee table with scissors for legs! It’s pretty clear what Peele was inspired by in this pic.

Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in this thriller, in which he co-starred with his wife Emma Thompson. Want to know what frighteners influenced ‘Us’? Here they are: Dead Again (1991): But Peele put a little more homework on Nyong’o’s plate, by recommending ten movies for her to watch in order to get into the proper headspace for this dark thriller. Lupita Nyong’o and her cast members, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Evan Alex already had their work cut out for them with Jordan Peele‘s ‘Us’, as they had to play both the average Wilson family and their dark doppelgangers.

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