10 More Horror Characters We All Foolishly Thought Had Got Away

Jordan Peele's Us goes off the rails a little bit in its final act, but for the most part, it's a creepy, atmospheric horror flick, with some of the best use of music and sound a movie has had in recent times.

It also pulls a brilliant trick on the audience, convincing us that we're rooting for the normal, human version of protagonist Adelaide Wilson, only to reveal in its final moments that her character isn't who we thought she was.

This trickery begins from the opening scene, where young Adelaide bumps into a doppelgänger of herself in a house of mirrors. Understandably, she's taken aback by this development, but nothing bad appears to happen to her, and she leaves with her parents - quite shell-shocked, sure, but otherwise safe and sound.

However, just under two hours later, writer-director Jordan Peele reveals that Adelaide wasn't safe and sound, and that she didn't get away from that house of mirrors like we were led to believe.

Adelaide's doppelgänger actually kidnapped her and swapped places with her, leaving the original, human version to lounge about underground for several decades with nothing but raw rabbit meat to feast on. No wonder she's a bit miffed.

Even though it should've been obvious that young Adelaide didn't just walk away from that house of mirrors with nothing happening, Peele plays us for a bunch of fools, and his clever storytelling makes us believe exactly that.