Author: Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy / Source: WIRED
In the new Jordan Peele movie Us, the four members of the Wilson family are haunted by a quartet of creepy doppelgängers. Fantasy author Tananarive Due, who teaches classes on black horror at UCLA, is ecstatic about the movie.
“It’s this beautiful, glorious moment I’ve been waiting for my whole life,” Due says in Episode 357 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “Which is a black family on vacation in a horror movie, just loving each other, and everyone being smart and engaging and believable.”
Horror author Craig Laurance Gidney enjoyed seeing a movie about a black family that is prosperous enough to own a summer home and—in one of the film’s best running gags—a boat.
“A lot of people think that people of color all come from the same lower class, especially in film, especially in Hollywood,” Gidney says. “And it was nice to see this intact family get together and sort of play around with one another.”
When danger threatens, the Wilsons quickly leap into action. Film critic Evan Narcisse found that very believable, given that many black families are highly attuned to potential hostility. “They’re responding to the threat without a lot of disbelief or being stunned,” Narcisse says. “And to me that felt like Jordan Peele channeling a part of the black experience that is not spoken about very often.”
Due hopes to see many more families like the Wilsons in future movies.
“As a creator, this is a wildly exciting time,” she says….
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