The Horror, The Horror: "Get Out" And The Place of Race in Scary Movies

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🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It's one of the oldest clichés of horror movies: the black guy dies first. But that's not the case in the new film "Get Out," written and directed by Jordan Peele (best known for the Comedy Central series "Key And Peele"). Gene and guest host Eric Deggans chat with Peele about his new film, check in with African-American filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, who's directed many scary movies and TV shows, and dive deep into race in horror-movie history with Robin Means Coleman, who's been analyzing and writing about the genre for over a decade.

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0:00.0	The following episode contains language that some may find offensive.
0:03.2	Why don't white people just lead a house when it's a ghost in the house?
0:06.0	What's good y'all? Welcome to Code Twitch, I'm Gene Demby.
0:10.5	We're asking the tough questions like that one.
0:12.8	I have a guest host this week, Eric Degan, who is MPR Television Critic.
0:16.0	Eric, what up, Gene, how you doing?
0:18.0	I'm so glad you're here, man. We invited you this week because we are talking about horror movies
0:22.0	and because you tipped us to this old Eddie Murphy routine from the 1980s criticizing horror movies.
0:27.8	It's a ghost in the house, get the f*** out.
0:32.4	Too bad we can't stay, baby.
0:35.5	So maybe coincidentally, Get Out is also the name of a new movie out this week
0:40.5	that completely turns over a lot of long-haired conventions about race and horror.
0:44.8	Get Out is by Jordan Peele, who a lot of us know from the beloved Comedy Central Show,
0:49.6	K&P. Oh, yeah, man. Luther, the Angertranslatte.
0:53.6	I translate it right.
0:54.8	Now, Gene, you saw Get Out and I haven't. So what's the story here?
0:58.8	Like, imagine, guess who's coming to dinner with a lot of blood.
1:02.4	It starts with a guy and his girlfriend going to meet her parents.
1:05.9	He's black, she's white, and they're going to visit them.
1:08.9	This big beautiful house out in the countryside.
1:11.5	Did anyone know him black?
1:12.9	Should they?
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