Get Out

A young Black man travels with his white girlfriend to meet her affluent family at their secluded estate, where the guests and household staff behave with a strangeness he cannot place. Through hypnosis and a paralysing mental state the film calls the sunken place, he uncovers what the family intends for him.

Using the frame of horror, the film stages racial trauma and the annihilation of the self by another's desire, the experience of being wanted only as a body to be occupied. It offers a clinician a sharp image of dispossession and the paralysis of being unable to act on what one knows. It premiered at Sundance in 2017 and won the Academy Award for its screenplay.