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Should Christians Watch Get Out?

Name: GodlyScore Review: Should Christians Watch Get Out?
Item: Get Out (2017)
Rating: 2.3
Author: GodlyScore

Should Christians watch Get Out? Jordan Peele's 2017 directorial debut won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and redefined American horror. Here is the complete Christian assessment.

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Get Out (2017)

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★★☆☆☆2.3/5 · GodlyScore 45/100

Get Out follows Black photographer Chris Washington visiting his white girlfriend's family, where something deeply wrong unfolds. The film is a social horror masterpiece examining racism through a supernatural lens. Content: significant psychological horror, some violence, a hypnosis/soul-transfer premise with occult elements, and a climax involving significant violence. 45/100 Caution — exceptional filmmaking, adults only.

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What Get Out Is

Get Out (2017, written and directed by Jordan Peele) follows Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a young Black photographer who visits the family of his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) in a secluded estate. What begins as social discomfort with her liberal white family escalates into something far darker. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and is considered a landmark of contemporary American cinema — a horror film that uses its genre to examine racism with unprecedented effectiveness.

Content Assessment

Horror/psychological: Get Out is genuinely unsettling throughout — psychological dread, creeping horror, and a sustained sense of wrongness that is the film's greatest achievement. Not appropriate for children or teenagers.

Occult elements: The film's central premise involves hypnosis and a procedure that transfers the consciousness of elderly white people into the bodies of young Black people — a soul-transfer concept with significant occult resonance. This is not incidental but central to the plot.

Violence: The climax involves significant violent content including deaths. Not gratuitous by genre standards but real.

Language: Moderate throughout.

For Christian Families

Get Out is exceptional cinema with genuine social commentary — its examination of "liberal racism" and the dehumanization of Black bodies is among the most incisive in American film. For Christians: the occult soul-transfer premise and climactic violence make it adults-only content. The social commentary is worth engaging for thoughtful adult Christians. Compare with Arrival for prestige genre film with cleaner content. See our Christian Faith Films hub. Plugged In reviews it in detail.

For horror with strong values themes, see our guide Should Christians Watch A Quiet Place?

Frequently Asked Questions

Should Christians watch Get Out?

45/100 Caution — adults only. Get Out is exceptional cinema that uses horror to examine racism with devastating effectiveness. Content concerns: significant psychological horror throughout, an occult soul-transfer premise central to the plot, moderate language, and a violent climax. Not appropriate for families or teenagers. For thoughtful adult Christians who engage social horror: genuinely important filmmaking worth engaging critically.

Is Get Out appropriate for Christians?

For mature adults only. Get Out's occult premise (consciousness transfer into unwilling Black hosts), sustained psychological horror, and violent climax make it not appropriate for family viewing or teenagers. The social commentary on racism is genuinely important and worth engaging by thoughtful Christians. Adults who enjoy horror can appreciate its craft while being aware of the specific content concerns.

Is Get Out anti-Christian?

No — Get Out is not anti-Christian. Its villains are not religious figures and the film does not target Christianity. The soul-transfer premise is science-horror rather than spiritual instruction. The film's moral framework — that using human beings as vessels for others' desires is profound evil — is compatible with Christian values of human dignity. The content concerns are genre concerns (horror, occult premise, violence), not anti-Christian messaging.