Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
Direction
Peele's most ambitious visual swing — pure showmanship
Cinematography
Daytime horror that makes blue skies terrifying
Practical Effects
That inflatable tube man energy is REAL
Director
Jordan Peele
Daniel Kaluuya
OJ Haywood
Keke Palmer
Emerald Haywood
Brandon Perea
Angel Torres
Michael Wincott
Antlers Holst
Steven Yeun
Ricky 'Jupe' Park
Wrenn Schmidt
Amber Park
Keith David
Otis Haywood Sr.
Devon Graye
Ryder Muybridge
Terry Notary
Gordy
Barbie Ferreira
Nessie
Donna Mills
Bonnie Clayton
Osgood Perkins
Fynn Bachman
Eddie Jemison
Buster
Jacob Kim
Young Ricky 'Jupe' Park
Sophia Coto
Mary Jo Elliot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Gordy subplot was inspired by real incidents of trained animal violence on set, including a 2009 chimp attack. Peele filmed the sitcom sequence like an actual '90s multi-cam show complete with period-accurate cameras.
The Haywood family claim — 'the only Black-owned horse trainers in Hollywood' — references real erased history: the Black jockey in Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 'Sallie Gardner at a Gallop,' technically the first motion picture ever made.
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