10 Crazy Details Hidden In Horror Movies

3. Us - It’s Our Time

Get Out director Jordan Peele is no stranger to the subtle art of setting up a twist, and like Ari Aster both of his recent genre masterpieces are filled with enough Easter eggs to keep cinemagoers obsessively parsing them for decades to come.

One of the more subtle nods comes in the form of Us’ opening scene, wherein we see the advertisement for Hands Across America playing on a television in the late eighties. So far, so unsubtle - the Hands Across America motif appears again later when the doppelgangers’ assault on society reaches its strange, unsettling end.

What you might not have noticed is the nostalgic VHS tapes nestled on either side of the television.

First off, there’s the classic horror comedy C.H.U.D - a movie about underground dwellers trying to escape and wreak vengeance on their oppressors? Fair enough, not too subtle. After all, it’s a movie whose influence Peele copped to and one which touches on many similar themes to his film.

But there’s also The Goonies, a film which must be childhood fave of Adelaide’s. How do we know? Well, because her tethered counterpart Red (who we later learn is actually the real, and really pissed, Adelaide) later quotes the movie verbatim with the line “Now it’s our time, it’s our time up there!”.

The nod tips extremely canny audience members off to her true nature, making the movie far more unsettling upon a re-watch.