background:Us is a 2019 horror movie which is about a family who goes on vacation and are terrorized by their doppelgangers known as the tethered who live in an underground world. Us director is Jordan Peele and us had a budget of 20 million dollars.
Cast:
Winston duke played gabe
Lupita nyong’o played red
Evan alex played jason
Shahadi joseph played dahlia
Maddison curry played adelaide
Plot: The movie starts off with a young girl named Adelaide watching a hands across america commercial. She then goes on vacation with her parents to the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk and wanders away, she then goes into a house of mirrors and finds a doppelganger of herself. The scene gets cut off right when the doppelganger turns around so we don’t know what happened, following the encounter adelaide stops speaking and withdraws from her family.then it fast forwards years later to an adult adelaide on vacation with her family, she has a husband named gabe, a daughter named Zora, and a son named jason.
On the family’s way to the boardwalk they find the bloody body of an old man being taken away by the paramedics. At the beach they meet up with the Tyler family which consists of a wife, husband and their 2 kids.when Jason runs off to use the restroom.he sees a man that looks identical to the one they saw earlier being taken away by the paramedics. Later that night, adelaide opens up to her husband about her experience as a child when she saw her doppelganger, she said she’s afraid that her doppelganger is going to come after her soon, but gabe doesn’t really believer he, then the lights go out and they see a family of 4 standing in front of their driveway.
The family breaks in and corners adelaide’s family into the living room.the intruders end up being doppelgangers of adelaide’s family and they’re all wearing red and they dont speak and
they’re really creepy, except adelaide’s double, her name is red and she can speak with a very raspy voice. Red explains to Adelaide’s family that they are what are called the tethered who share a soul with their look alike counterparts and they’re here to untether themselves. Adelaide’s son jason also notices that his look alike mirrors his actions, the family becomes separated as they are terrorized by their doppelgangers and then gabe actually manages to kill his doppelganger, adelaide’s family escapes but meanwhile the tyler family, who were the people they hung out with at the boardwalk with are getting terrorized by their doppelgangers, the entire tyler family gets killed with their doppelgangers.
Adelaide’s family goes to the tylers to see if they can find a place to stay and then they have to fight off the tylers doppelgangers and they kill them.they turn on the news and see that doppelgangers are killing people all over the world and they are forming a human chain. The family decides to drive away and escape to Mexico on the way there, Zoras look alike attacks their car, but Zora kills her. While driving they find that a lot of towns people have already been
killed and they find jason’s look alike standing in front of them in front of a burning vehicle, jason knows that his look alike mirrors his actions, so jason steps back until his look alike goes into the fire, then jason gets snatched away by red.
adelaide chases red and jason into the funhouse where it all began, she then finds red in a classroom and tells her that the tethered are genetic clones that were created by the government to control the original on the surface when the experiment failed, the tethered went crazy underground, having to survive on rabbit meat and force to mimic the actions of those above them. It was Red’s idea for all of them to escape the underground and kill those above them. Then get into a fight and then Adelaide kills red.
And then rescues jason. Then a flashback reveals what happened to Adelaide as a kid in the house of mirrors. Her doppelganger strangled her, making her lose her voice, and trapped her underground with a tethered, while the doppelganger went up and took the place of adelaide. So the movie ends as her son Jason realizes Adelaide is a doppelganger. The end.
Review: I thought the movie was amazing. It is one of the few horror movies that I could genuinely rewatch over and over again and that says alot about me because I absolutely love horror movies. I think the concept of the movie is amazing and all the actors are also amazing, everything about this movie is amazing it has everything, its scary, good cast great concept everything and i truly believe us is a movie worth watching because it is really that good.