Get Out, Us, and Nope- October 25

 Aaron Perez

10/25/2026

Image Credit: Universal Studios

    Jordan Peele has directed only three feature films to date, yet each has left a lasting mark on modern horror and American cinema. Through Get Out (2017), Us (2019), and Nope (2022), he has blended sharp social commentary, inventive storytelling, and genre thrills into work that feels both urgent and original. His next directorial project remains in development, continuing the deliberate, secretive process that has defined his career.

Get Out (2017)

    Peele’s feature debut is a precise racial horror-thriller. Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a young Black photographer, travels to the upstate New York home of his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) to meet her parents. What starts as polite, overly accommodating hospitality quickly turns sinister, revealing a cult-like family operation built on the exploitation of Black bodies through hypnosis and surgical body horror.

    Made on a lean budget of roughly $4.5 million, the film grossed approximately $255 million worldwide. Critics celebrated its tight craft, satire, and cultural impact (98% on Rotten Tomatoes). Peele won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay—the first Black writer to do so in that category—and received nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Kaluuya earned a Best Actor nomination. Get Out remains one of the most influential horror films of the 21st century for turning everyday racism into pure dread.

Us (2019)

    Peele’s second film expands the scope while deepening the psychological unease. Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o in a dual role) returns with her family to her childhood beach home in Santa Cruz. Haunted by a traumatic childhood encounter in a funhouse of mirrors, she confronts a terrifying home invasion by doppelgängers known as the Tethered. The story explores identity, class, American duality, and the idea of the “other” living just beneath the surface.

    Budgeted at about $20 million, Us opened to a then-record $70–71 million domestic weekend for an original R-rated horror film and finished with roughly $256 million worldwide. It earned strong critical praise (93% on Rotten Tomatoes), especially for Nyong’o’s dual performance and Peele’s escalating ambition. Some viewers found its denser symbolism less surgically precise than Get Out, yet it confirmed Peele as a major directorial voice.

Nope (2022)

    Peele’s third feature shifts into large-scale sci-fi horror. Siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer) run a struggling horse-training ranch for Hollywood productions in a remote California gulch. After their father’s mysterious death and strange aerial phenomena, they set out to capture definitive footage of the unexplained force overhead—the so-called “Oprah shot”—with help from others, including a former child star (Steven Yeun). The film examines spectacle, exploitation, the camera’s gaze, trauma, and the dangers of chasing the extraordinary.

    Shot partly in IMAX on a larger budget of around $68 million, Nope opened to approximately $41–44 million domestically and grossed roughly $172 million worldwide. Critics largely praised its visual ambition, ideas, and scale (around 83% on Rotten Tomatoes), though audience reactions were more mixed. It completed a rare hat-trick: all three of Peele’s directed features opened at No. 1 at the domestic box office.

What’s Next

    Peele’s fourth film as writer-director remains untitled and in active development with Universal and his production company Monkeypaw. It was previously targeted for an October 2026 release after earlier delays, but the date was later removed from the schedule. Recent reports indicate a completed script and continued work, with plot and cast details still tightly guarded—consistent with Peele’s preference for secrecy until the work is ready.

    Through Monkeypaw he also continues producing other projects, but his next directorial effort is the one audiences are waiting for most.

The Through-Line

    Across these three films, Peele has shown that original, idea-driven horror can achieve both commercial success and cultural staying power. He consistently centers Black leads and perspectives while expanding the genre’s thematic range—from interpersonal and systemic racism (Get Out) to class, identity, and national self-reflection (Us) to spectacle culture and the ethics of looking (Nope). Each film feels distinct yet unmistakably his: meticulously crafted, thematically dense, and unwilling to offer easy comfort.

    Peele’s body of work as a director remains compact but highly influential. The wait for his fourth film only heightens anticipation for whatever unsettling vision he delivers next.

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Peele, Jordan, director. Get Out. Universal Pictures, 2017.

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