Us (2019)

It's divisive. Only 69% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 87%.

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited. Wikipedia ↗

Us is a 2019 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, his follow-up to the acclaimed Get Out. Lupita Nyong'o stars as Adelaide Wilson, who returns to her childhood beachside home in Santa Cruz with her family for a summer vacation. Their trip turns into a nightmare when four strangers appear in the driveway — their exact doubles, dressed in red jumpsuits and armed with golden scissors, who call themselves "the Tethered" and have come to take their counterparts' places.

Lupita Nyong'o delivered a dual performance of extraordinary physicality and emotional range — as Adelaide, she conveyed maternal ferocity and barely suppressed terror; as Red, her doppelgänger, she spoke in a damaged, whispering rasp and moved with jerky, puppet-like precision that was genuinely unsettling. Jordan Peele expanded his ambitions from Get Out's focused social satire to a broader, more allegorical canvas, with the Tethered functioning as a metaphor for the underclass, the forgotten, and the dark mirror of American prosperity. Michael Abels's score, featuring an eerie choral arrangement of Luniz's "I Got 5 on It," was one of the most memorable horror scores in years.

Us earned $255 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.