Research & Conventions Horror Genre Film (2017, US)

Us was a film released in march of 2019. The movie was pretty popular, receiving good ratings by many people. The film was directed and produced by Jordan Peele. The movie's budget was around $20 million USD. When producing, actor Lupita Nyong'o had to play two characters. Both characters having an individual script with all different words.

movements
There weren't too many different types of movements, they all repeated. The movements that they used in the film were a tilt, a pan, a tracking shot, a zoom in and a zoom out

angles
The same thing as the movements`, angles didn't really have too many varying angles. They used most of the typical horror movie angles including headshot, closeup, over the shoulder, point of view, two shot, low angle, areal

props 
The props consisted of some stereotypical horror things like bats, golf clubs and fireplace irons and the iconic scissors all the doppelgangers carry on them. There weren't many props in this movie that weren't used as weapons at some point.

lighting 
The lighting was typically dark and had very sharp lights and darks. But in some scenes, it became hard to see with how dark it became and how limited the light was used. In other scenes, they had very high lighting, like in houses and cars.

scenes
Some scenes in the movie were Inside the house, a hall with bunnies, a friend's house, a car, a classroom, sea side carnival, a mirror hall

editing 
The editing was your typical movie edits such as jump cuts, matchshots, fade in, fade out. The most used had to be jump cuts and match shots. Though they didn't use as many match shots as jump cuts, they still used it more than

actors
Some of the actors include but are not limited to Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Even Alex

costumes
Some costumes used in Us are the sleepwear of the original family and the jumpsuits of the doppelgangers. All the doppelgangers wear the same thing to match, also carrying the same weapon.

makeup
The make up they used is very minimal. They do a few special effects like blood and gore but thats it. Though some of the gore might have been CGI, I still put it under make up.

sounds 
The sound of birds chirping, chatting in the carnival, waves crashing into the shore, the noises in the mirror house, along with the noises of the other doppelgängers copying their originals. There were some splats of blood or bodies falling as noises too but these weren't made too heavily.

common elements
Horror relies on a dark mood and suspense, which Us used to its advantage many times. They also use aspects comedy to lighten the mood when it gets serious or just because the story is meant to be a horror comedy, wich

what did I like about this movie? 
I liked how Us followed the stereotypes of horror movies, but in an original way. Though they went with typical horror tropes and conventions, they made it work. It was an original idea. The fact that they had an actor playing two roles with totally different personalities and characteristics.

what did I dislike about this movie?
There wasn't much I didn't like about this movie. The only thing I didn't like was the whole "every double is against the original" story plot.  Though it was interesting, it would have been more interesting if it was the Red and Adelaide. There were also some confusing parts such as the ending where Red and Adelaide switch places. That wasn't really explained until the ending of the ending and still, even then, it was a bit confusing.