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.
The Films That Shaped It