Jordan Peele has cited Roman Polanski's apartment trilogy — Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant — as foundational to Get Out. Polanski showed how domestic spaces become sites of paranoia and entrapment, how politeness itself becomes threatening. Michael Haneke's Funny Games — streaming on Criterion Channel — is the direct ancestor of Get Out's use of liberal white comfort as horror. The most frightening films are about the violence hiding inside normalcy.
Movies like Audition and A Tale of Two Sisters were definitely big for me in terms of inspiring how to construct tension and scares.
— Jordan Peele · IGN interview with Alex Gilyadov
Films That Influenced Get Out
