THE BIG FILM REVIEW
Us review
Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out will get your brain buzzing
Kevin Maher
March 21 2019, 5:00pm, The Times
Lupita Nyong'o, Evan Alex and Shahadi Wright Joseph in the horror comedy Us
In the Old Testament, the Book of Jeremiah xi, 11, it says that the Lord will bring down great evil upon the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem if they don't obey his voice. "And though they shall cry unto me," the Lord says. "I will not hearken unto them." A reference to this tiny slice of scripture features heavily in Jordan Peele's latest horror movie, his follow-up to the ingenious commercial and critical smash of 2017, Get Out.
Us is about zombie doppelgängers in red jumpsuits tormenting an aspirational middle-class family in the US. The mother and the film's central character, Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o), is haunted by visions of a homeless man holding aloft a makeshift cardboard sign on which are…