I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent brain is people.

Need my sister and my daughter.

Rosberg.

What's in the box?

Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, and this is a Slate spoiler special podcast on us, the new horror film from writer-director Jordan Peel.

And joining me here in the Slate studio is Kay Austin Collins, the critic for Vanity Fair.

Hey, Cam.

Hey, good morning.

Yeah, okay, so we have a lot to unpack with this movie.

It's only just under two hours long. It's not an incredibly long running time, but it's a very stuffed, some would say overstuffed movie, full of ideas, full of plot twists, full of timeframes and kind of conceptual jumps. So I guess we'll just start at the top, but I think we're going to have to make some analytical detours as we go along. But as usual, I just want to just quickly get a

response, yes or no, send people or not. Did you like this movie? I did. I had a really good time

with some caveats. And the caveats are, just enjoy it. Right. Just go with it.

The caveats might have to do as much with the reception of the movie, no,

and of Jordan Peel in general as with this particular movie, which we will get into, no doubt.

But we should probably start up by saying this is his second film, his debut film, Get Out, was this smash hit,

and also kind of one of the talking pieces of the year it came out, which was, I guess, 2017.

Yeah, it seems like a long time ago.

Yeah, everything does these days.

And so naturally, the response to this movie is going to be tempered as the wrong word, but

it's going to be affected by the huge splash that that movie made.

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