10 Genius Blockbuster Movie Subversions

What You Thought

Jordan Peele set his own standards pretty high with his directorial debut, Get Out. The film, centred around a young interracial couple taking the dreaded trip to meet the girl's parents, intertwined racial tensions with surrealist horror, making you too scared to drink from a china tea cup, again.

With one horror in the bag, Peele set his sights on a follow-up film involving a young African-American Family taking a vacation, only for things to take a terrifying turn as they come face-to-face with themselves.

If you'd seen Get Out, the chances are you were expecting much of the same.

What It Actually Was

With Us, Peele had other ideas. He chose to completely blank the racial themes that had grabbed the headlines in his last feature and focused on a story about identity and what it was to be an average American - and more than that, did they deserve the life that they had?

It certainly swerved those in attendance, many of whom didn't know what to make of the film. On the one hand, it was nothing like the film that had made them fans of Peele's horror work but on the other, it felt like something fresh and new that deserved celebrating.