20 Most Highly Rated Horror Movies On Rotten Tomatoes
2. Get Out
Rating: 99%
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out might be a surprising inclusion on this list considering it was only released a month or so ago, but let’s be honest: critics are going crazy for the comedy-horror and if its initial box office success (currently ranking at over $167 million on a $4.5 million budget) is anything to go by, moviegoers are quite taken with it too.
Partly inspired by The Stepford Wives, Get Out is set in American suburbia but swaps gender based themes for the all too pertinent issue of race. Starring Brit actor Daniel Kaluuya as the black boyfriend of well-to-do white girl Rose, the film focuses on him meeting her parents for the first time in a very white suburb with a very dark secret.
A biting satire that not only twists horror conventions but offers also a scathing commentary on interracial relations in a supposedly ‘post-racist’ society, it’s already being hailed as a modern horror classic.