Jordan Peele left behind his hilarious Comedy Central show,
Key & Peele, to direct his first film, a horror movie—with
a very timely twist.BY KEVIN P. SULLIVAN
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EDITED BY KEVIN P. SULLIVAN@KPSullWhen Jordan Peele, one
half of the comedy duo
Key and Peele and a
devoted horror fan, decided that
it was time to fulfill a dream and
write a thriller, he started with a
question: What is my favorite
horror movie thatdoesn’t exist?
The films that terrified him
as a kid were usually based in
relatable, everyday fears, but
Peele never found one of
the scariest aspects of his own
life represented in the genre.
“Race, specifically, is the Ameri-
can horror that has gotten the
least attention within the genre,”
Peele, 37, says. “Every other social
dynamic or fear has been tackled,
but there’s been something
taboo about race.”
InGet Out (opening Feb. 24),
Peele’s first film as writer-director,
a black photographer (Sicario’s
Daniel Kaluuya) goes upstate with
his white girlfriend (Girls’ Allison