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.
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.
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.
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?