The trailer for Jordan Peele's Us was just released, in time to freak everyone out during Christmas. This is a very rare situation where I didn't read spoilers and didn't read the script so it's really fun to try to figure out what is happening.
Peele said: “For my second feature, I wanted to create a monster mythology, I wanted to do something that was more firmly in the horror genre but still held on to my love of movies that are twisted but fun.”
I don't think we should be taking his use of the word "monsters" literally, though.
How cool is that logo?! It's a reference to Peele's previous film, Get Out.
Nice foreshadowing - the four people hunting the family are their doppelgangers, who Peele calls"The tethered".
"Find yourself" on the building as the boy is approaching what appears to be one of the doppelgangers and the first sign for the characters that something is very wrong.
Are the intruders clones? Look at all those bunnies, perhaps experimented on first before whoever is doing this moved on to human trials? Also - only one of the bunnies is black.
We see a ballerina - in two different settings. A clone learning the skills of the original?
But if they are clones what is happening here? This looks more like supernatural occurrence. This girl is Madison Curry (the daughter is played by this actress) - it appears she is playing the young version of Lupita's character. Maybe it's not anything supernatural, just a creepy nightmare she is having as an adult. We see the girl few times in the trailer, maybe it's a new doppelganger/clone that hasn't grown up yet? There's a line in the trailer where Elisabeth Moss' character says she cannot believe how big they've got referring to the kids, so maybe it is a clue the doppelgangers grow up much faster than people.
Are they immune to fire?!
And is that perhaps a result of cloning gone wrong? Or is it after the above scene and result of the burning? If so are they immune to pain? And what is up with those masks?
The shirts. There's a bunny on one and also references to Jaws and Thriller on others.
Check out the name of the boat. Peele sneaks in some humor there. Also this appears to be the dad beating someone up.
Hopefully she is about to stab the scientology out of her. This appears to be the character's doppelganger. They all seem very odd/emotionless.
And finally not only is Lupita getting attacked by the evil Lupita but there's also a gigantic spider there
Us opens on March 15th in USA