What's the most common thing in almost every horror film? The answer is- They will do whatever they are told not to do, hahaha. If there is rumour that a place is not good don't go there and they will obviously go there. Actually that's why the story progresses. Hehehe, It was a part of fun, leave it.
So the movie I am going to talk about is US(2019) which is an American horror film. This one is directed by Jordan Peele who is also the director of another amazing film Get Out i had watched and enjoyed that too. If you watch both of them then you will find some similarities. I may write about that in this post.
The movie starts from the past(1986) where a young girl named Adelaide was visiting a fair in Santa Cruz Beach and somehow got detached from her parents for just 15 minutes and entered a mirror house where she met with her doppelganger. Nothing much happened or showed at that scene. Later they found that she wasn't talking at all. Maybe she got frightened by that incident? In the present scenes we see Adelaide as an adult with her husband Gabe and two children. They go for their summer vacation on the same beach. That's where the story gets interesting.
Well, the first 30 minutes of the movie was pretty slow to me but after that when the movie moves into the main part then you will obviously stick with the story. We see a family of doppelgangers at their house and their motive is to kill the whole family and take their place in this world. In a thought I got a feel of zombie movies, where zombies are chasing humans to kill and strengthen their existence. This one is to show their fight for survival. Well, this one has a different and pretty interesting plot.
Skip this paragraph if you don't want spoilers: In "Get Out'' we saw how research was done to transplant the brain from one person to another. Where the owner of the brain will be stuck in a sunken place. And in the one we saw something like that where doppelgangers were created. They could create the body and tether but they couldn’t create the soul and left that project abandoned. They were just following the movements of their doppelganger on the surface and they were living in the secret tunnels. So, both of these movies are related to scary research on humankind.
So whoever is fond of watching thriller and horror genre films should go for it. A different plot with a massive twist in the end. Twists are pretty obvious for most films to leave us clapping in the end. Hehehe. No matter how the whole movie was, you gotta clap in the end for some twists in most of the films. I do love to see them too.
Well another thing, if you go to research about the movie you would find way more than it was shown directly in the film.
1)The film begins with a title written,
"There are thousands of miles of tunnels beneath the United States ... Abandoned subway systems, unused service routes, and deserted mine shafts ... Many have no known purpose at all."
You would know what that is trying to mean after watching the movie if you haven’t read that spoiler part.
- 1986 scene at the beach where the young girl sees a man holding a cardboard written jeremiah 11:11 and in the present date when she returns to that beach for vacation she sees the same man with the same cardboard but this time as a bloody corpse. This is related to the bible which I am not writing here.
- All the doppelgangers were standing holding one another's hand and making chain like hands across America happened in 1986. We saw advertisements of that movement and even a t-shirt in that film too.
So in a whole i would like to say that the director wanted to show more than he could state in his film. If you watch the movie individually then you will like it and if you enjoy it with all of these background things i mentioned here then it becomes truly interesting. So go for it, I would love to rate all of this combined 8 out of 10.
Screenshots are taken from the films.