US Bunny Games…

Us is a horror movie,” tweeted Jordan Peele recently, lest anyone got the wrong idea and started calling it ‘elevated horror’ or some such. Two years after Get Out stirred subtexts into suspense with hypnotic dexterity, Peele’s second feature refreshes and – indeed – reveres the influences of George A. Romero, John Carpenter and Wes Craven in recognising and amplifying horror’s scope for tension and implication. True, it doesn’t quite stick the landing. But it’s a twisted funhouse blast on top, and detailed enough below to reward revisits, preferably alongside its predecessor for maximum echo-chamber intrigue.

- Kevin Harley

Revisits turn out to be a theme, as Lupita Nyong’o’s Adelaide Wilson returns with goofball hubby Gabe (Winston Duke) and their kids (Shahadi Wright Joseph’s Zora, Evan Alex’s Jason) to the beachfront holiday spot that – as teased in the prologue – left her traumatised as a kid. We don’t find out for a while what happened in her past, but we are alerted to a mythology involving underground tunnels and caged rabbits, establishing a Peeleiverse of echoes right away: remember the tune at the start of Get Out?