LOS ANGELES - In between good old-fashioned scares, Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning horror flick Get Out (2017) offered a subtle commentary on racism in America with its story of a young black man's encounter with the family of his white girlfriend.
But the filmmaker warns fans they will be disappointed if they look for similar subtext in his follow-up film Us, even though it, too, is a horror story centred on African-American characters.
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