10 Movies Like Get Out

Get Out proved horror could carry a thesis: every scare in the film is also an argument. The matches below all use genre mechanics to interrogate something real.

The matches

• Us (2019) — Peele's doppelgänger nation; bigger, weirder, funnier. Try it if: you want more metaphor-per-scare.
• Nope→ Nope (2022) — Peele's spectacle-skepticism western. Try it if: you're completing the trilogy.
• The Invitation (2015) — A dinner party of dread; the slow-reveal blueprint. Try it if: tension-by-conversation is your thing.
• His House (2020) — Refugee trauma as haunted house; moving and scary. Try it if: you want the metaphor to hurt.
• Midsommar (2019) — Breakup grief in daylight horror. Try it if: you want your dread in sunshine.
• Hereditary (2018) — Family trauma as supernatural doom. Try it if: you want the scariest film on this list.
• The Stepford Wives (1975) — The suburban-body-snatch original. Try it if: you want Get Out's grandfather.
• Candyman (1992) — Urban-legend horror with real social teeth. Try it if: you want the classic of the genre.

Where they differ: Hereditary and Midsommar trade social commentary for family dread; His House is the emotional heavyweight. Us is the direct same-director follow-up and the natural next watch.