The Big Picture · Discussion
September 1, 2025/ 41 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
A 25-for-25 deep dive on No. 13: Jordan Peele's 'Get Out,' the $4 million horror debut that defined how movies talked about race after Obama and won Peele a screenwriting Oscar.
3 films across 1 segment.
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No. 13 — 'Get Out'The 25 for 25 series
Peele's $4M directorial debut and the list's horror pick. The highest-grossing original debut in movie history, with four Oscar nominations and a Best Original Screenplay win. It gave the culture 'the sunken place' and the post-Obama vocabulary the hosts trace here.
Peele's follow-up. The first movie Sean and Amanda deep-dived together on the show, and to them the more flawed of the two.
Peele's 2022 alien picture and Sean's favorite of his: a bigger, harder-to-unpack movie that reaches toward Spielberg.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Influences and double features SinnersThe Stepford WivesPsychoThe Silence of the LambsCool Hand LukeThe Texas Chain Saw MassacreJudas and the Black MessiahThey LiveThe BroodThe People Under the StairsThe ShiningShadow of a DoubtI Know What You Did Last SummerBaby GirlM3GAN
The 2017 Best Picture race The Shape of WaterDunkirkPhantom ThreadLady BirdCall Me by Your NameDarkest HourThe PostThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriPhilomena
Horror that didn't make the list Let the Right One InHereditaryThe WitchThe OthersPulseMartyrsTrain to BusanSignsIt FollowsThe Babadook28 Days LaterThe StrangersThe WailingThe HostThe InvitationThe RingThe Conjuring
In passing BarbieOppenheimerMichael ClaytonChildren of MenThe Fantastic Four: First Steps
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
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