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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Charles Bramesco

Fright club: eight film-makers who are redefining modern horror

(clockwise from top: The Terrifier 3; Saint Maud; The Babadook; The Lighthouse.
Terror vision … (clockwise from top: The Terrifier 3; Saint Maud; The Babadook; The Lighthouse. Composite: IFC Films, AP, PA, Alamy

Jordan Peele

The Get Out director’s spring-loaded allegories for the perils, nuances and contradictions of Black life in the US have spawned a new cinematic vocabulary; you can judge his influence by the sheer number of imitators, the best of them nurtured by Peele himself through his Monkeypaw production company.

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