In episode seventy-eight of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Jordan Peele’s sophomore slice of surreal horror US. Then they discuss two other family invasion flicks with more to say beyond their premise than meets the eye: Martin Scorsese’s CAPE FEAR and Sam Peckinpah’s STRAW DOGS. Ben sheds a tear over Lupita Nyong’o’s self-reflexive tête-à-tête, Daniel digs Scorsese’s excoriation of American surfaces, and Brandon falls under Peele’s directorial spell from the first moment we go under the boardwalk.

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