But horror films from around the world have a political edge, she said. Lam, whose film The Curse of Willow Song is set in Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community, explained that she'd previously been reluctant to address her identity in her films. And when I saw Get Out, it completely shifted how I thought I could tell a story before,' said Karen Lam, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver. 'I never would have thought of writing or directing a piece that was so much more centred in a community and in a voice. Among Peele's audience is a generation of BIPOC filmmakers inspired by his storytelling, which is preoccupied with the experiences of people from marginalized communities. Peele, who won an Academy Award in 2018 for Get Out's original screenplay, has brought industry prestige to a historically overlooked genre. The dark side: 2020 was a boom year for horror on-screen - and that's no accident.Public perception of horror genre has changed But Peele's films have further exposed audiences to horror as a vehicle for sharp, biting social commentary, according to filmmakers and scholars. The horror genre, long a reliable money-maker at the box office, has always had something to say. I had to go as big as possible,' said Peele. 'I feel like this is the first moment that anyone would ever allow me or anyone to make this movie. Peele, who made an unlikely turn from fresh-faced sketch comic ( Key & Peele) to celebrated genre filmmaker, told the Associated Press that he knew it was the right time for his latest offering. Yet the director's influence is felt deeply across the landscape of a once-marginalized genre: a legacy further cemented by the arrival of his third film, Nope, to theatres on Friday.įollowing Peele's social thrillers Get Out (2017) and Us (2019), Nope stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as sibling ranchers who run a horse wrangling business for film productions in California.Īccording to the CBC's Eli Glasner, it's a genre-twisting homage to science-fiction and the western.

Jordan Peele's career as one of North America's most acclaimed horror filmmakers began only five years ago.

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