Jordan Peele mixes horror and science fiction in the creepy "Nope", a film in which a fearsome alien entity threatens a peaceful community.
The director uses genre cinema to update the flaws of humans in general, and Americans in particular, in the face of fear.
Jordan Peele knows how to scare the hell out of it.
The director of
Get Out
and
Us
, also scriptwriter of Nia DaCosta's
Candyman
, tackles science fiction for
Nope
and he spares neither his heroes nor the spectators.
A brother and a sister (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) have to deal with an entity that has the annoying habit of making those around them disappear.
If we think of Steven Spielberg's
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
when seeing the film, it's no coincidence.
Jordan Peel admits, in the press kit, that he was very marked by Steven Spielberg's film and that he wanted to offer "a great extraterrestrial film, a film about flying saucers, and not just a horror film based on flying saucers but really the very essence of this sub-genre.
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A scary creature
He knows how to do it, the bugger, to confront a small peaceful community with Jean Jacket, an entity not at all recommendable inspired by a sea creature and a monster from the manga Evangelion.
Jordan Peele uses genre cinema to expose the flaws of humans in general, and Americans in particular, in the face of fear.
His film is a horrifying little gem with a tightly-knit staging and endearing characters that make you look at the sky with concern.
We wouldn't like to be invited by Jean Jacket to a deserted corner of the road.
In English "nope" means "no".
Yet it is a big enthusiastic "yes" that we say after seeing this film which confirms its author as a master of contemporary horror.
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