Get Out Every Classic Horror Movie Easter Egg Explained
Get Out: Every Classic Horror Movie Easter Egg Explained
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Jordan Peele’s Get Out features many Easter eggs and homages to classic horror movies that influenced him and set the groundwork for the genre.
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Throughout Jordan Peele’s Get Out, there are several Easter eggs to the classic horror movies that influenced the director. Get Out revitalized the horror and psychological thriller genres while also paying homage to the classic chillers of the 1960s and 70s. The movie follows black photographer Chris Washington who goes to meet his white girlfriend Rose Armitage’s liberal family in Upstate New York. Get Out quickly subverts expectations, essentially becoming a horror take on 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
When deciding on his directorial debut, Jordan Peele was particularly influenced to tell a story starring a black male lead, similar to 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. Before Get Out, Night of the Living Dead was one of the few classic horror movies to comment on race and have a black protagonist as the only character to survive through the end – although it still doesn’t end happily for Night’s hero. Peele wanted to use the horror vehicle to criticize race relations in America, using his comedy background to satirize the ingenuine stances of many middle-class white liberals concerning black Americans.
Plenty of Get Out’s character names, tropes, shots, and lines call back to some of the most popular horror films of all time. The Easter eggs included pay homage to everything from North by Northwest to The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby. Many of the references are used to manipulate audience expectations, allowing their prior knowledge of popular horror movies to help them more quickly assess the sinister nature of the story.
North by Northwest (1959)
The scene where Walter sprints directly at Chris and moves at the last moment is a direct callback to the famous scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. In this acclaimed thriller, Cary Grant’s character ducks at the last minute when he realizes a crop duster plane is purposefully flying right at him. The referential running scene in Get Out is another hint the family may be coming after Chris. Grant’s character had people coming after him too but believed those he was going to meet during the attack were on his side. Similarly, Chris mistakenly believed Walter to be on his side because he was one of the only other black people at the Armitage house.
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Rosemary’s Baby has some of the most notable Easter eggs in Get Out. Rose’s name is derived from Rosemary’s Baby’s titular female lead Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow). Rose’s grandfather Roman’s name comes from the character Roman Castevet as well as director Roman Polanski. Some of the underlying plot elements and reveals of Get Out are directly influenced by this 1968 chiller too.
The latter film reveals the neighbors and many of those who come into contact with Rosemary during her pregnancy are part of a cult that worships Satan, and they are using Rosemary’s baby as the Antichrist to appease Satan. In Get Out, the Armitages are a part of a cult-like group that kidnaps black people and inserts white peoples’ minds into their bodies, essentially killing the person being inhabited.
Another similar plot element in Get Out is how Missy Armitage hypnotizes Chris with the coffee cup to subvert him for their takeover. In Rosemary’s Baby, Minnie Castevet drugs Rosemary with chocolate mousse so she can be impregnated by the Devil. The betrayal by a loved one also comes from Rosemary’s Baby, where Chris is brought to the cult by his girlfriend Rose and Rosemary’s use by the cult is facilitated by her husband Guy.
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Stepford Wives is another adaptation of a novel by Rosemary’s Baby author Ira Levin. One scene specifically influenced by this 1975 movie is the party where Logan (AKA Andre) breaks down after a phone flashes and starts yelling “get out” to Chris. In The Stepford Wives, Carol Van Zant breaks down repetitively saying “I’ll just die if I don’t get that recipe.” Both instances are written off to the guests by their significant others as the product of drinking.
The movies also share a cult-like white middle-class villain. Get Out’s racist suburban group uses black people for their bodies, essentially killing them to insert themselves into their minds. In Stepford Wives, the suburban men are a part of the misogynistic Men’s Association where they murder their wives but use their likenesses to create submissive female androids.
Halloween (1978)
Halloween followed a teenage babysitter who was traumatized by escaped murderer Michael Myers on Halloween night in her white Illinois suburban neighborhood. The opening scene in Get Out where Jeremy Armitage abducts a black male in a neighborhood at night is an homage to slasher movie Halloween’s neighborhood shots. The purpose of including the scene is to inform the audience that sinister events are occurring in a seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. Peele satirizes this expectation by having the violence exacted on black Americans in these neighborhoods by white Americans who are historically made to be the victims in these movies.
The Shining (1980)
A small Easter egg to The Shining is heard when Rod Williams (Lil Rel Howery) is outside of the airport trying to contact Chris because he knows something sinister has happened. In the scene, an announcement for “flight 2-3-7” can be heard in the background. 237 refers to the room number of the most menacing room in The Shining where the hotel has psychological control over Jack Torrence.
In Get Out, Rod calls when Chris has already been sent into the sunken place by the Armitages and needs help. This is similar to The Shining when Dick Hallorann tries calling the Overlook Hotel when he suspects Jack has become fully submissive to the hotel’s powers. Rod and Dick seem to have similar character arcs, where they both show up at the crucial moment at the end of the movie when the protagonists need the most help.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Jordan Peele also used The Silence of the Lambs as inspiration for the setup of Missy Armitage hypnotizing Chris. Get Out’s directorial style for the hypnosis scenes directly reflects the interview shots between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. The movies both use tight close-ups for scenes where characters look directly into the camera, getting the most out of their facial expressions. Both villains also have a calm demeanor in their discussions to misleadingly put the other at ease.
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