10 Film Secrets That Were Hiding In Plain Sight

3. The First Shot Spoils The Movie's Twist - Us

Much like his debut Get Out, Jordan Peele's Us is absolutely a movie that rewards viewers who pay attention, be it in the form of Easter eggs or visual gags which expand the movie's universe.

And hilariously, observant viewers might notice that the spine of the film's plot is effectively spoiled in its very first shot, which focuses on a TV playing an ad for Hands Across America, with a VHS case of the 1984 cult classic horror film C.H.U.D. visible on the left-hand side.

In its namesake, C.H.U.D. stands for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers", and though Us' villainous Tethered aren't ultimately revealed to be cannibals, they are underground dwellers who, much like the C.H.U.D., emerge above ground to terrorise well-to-do humans.

The nod goes deeper than that, though, as Peele revealed in an interview that his first childhood girlfriend was none other than the daughter of Douglas Cheek, the director of C.H.U.D. Incredible.

Though the VHS is easily missed or even dismissed as merely a playful reference to a trashy classic, knowing how densely symbolic Get Out's visuals were, eagle-eyed audiences may well have put two and two together right from the jump.