Meg (Jennifer Kim) was kidnapped but escaped. Reunited with her husband, Scott (Kentucker Audley), she agrees to spend some time with him at his family's summer house on a secluded Cape Cod beach. It's the off-season so it should be a quiet place for Meg to work through some of the trauma she experienced. Except Scott is clingy and pushy and his annoying cousin, Madelin (Marin Ireland), shows up and won't take a hint and Meg's nightmares are getting worse and all she wants to do is talk to Scott about it but he keeps telling her to write it in her journal and the goddamned dog won't stop barking and it feels like she can't take a single breath.
This year's Get Out comes with a side order of gaslighting. It's a little shaky and doesn't quite stick the landing as much as I'd like but for a debut full-length feature by writer/director Olivia West Lloyd, it's very promising. Kim is a standout in the lead and it's nice to see the evolution of her character. Of course this is another example of Women's Horror where the horror is you are a woman and no one listens to you.
If you like true crime podcasts, this is probably the movie for you. It's currently streaming on Hulu.
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