In his directorial debut horror film, Get Out, Jordan Peele takes the natural anxiety of the meet-the-parents milestone of dating and pairs it with every conceivable clichéd fear of the stereotypical hidden evil intent that white people secretly harbor toward blacks and exaggerates it by a million. The scariest part is that the critics are loving it! In fact, the film has garnered an unprecedented 100 percent score of 27 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, a popular website that aggregates film reviews from a variety of critics.

The film, starring English actor, Daniel Kaluuya alongside Allison Williams of HBO's comedy-drama series, Girls, follows a young interracial couple on a weekend getaway to a white suburban neighborhood where Chris (Kaluuya) meets the parents of his girlfriend, Rose (Williams) for the first time. What follows is a horrific series of disturbing discoveries that lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone writes, “A jolt-a-minute horrorshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit. How is one movie all that? See Get Out, from debuting director Jordan Peele (one-half of the comic team of Key and Peele), and get woke.”

Racism is some scary sh**. The movie debuts in theaters nationwide on Friday, February 24, 2017.

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