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    DEEP DIVE

    Aug 04, 2019 6 minutes
    WORDS NICK DE SEMLYEN
    TWO ACTORS IN COMFORTABLE ARMCHAIRS DOESN’T SOUND LIKE THE STUFF OF HORROR LEGEND.

    There are no buckets of blood, no levitating demons, nary a chainsaw in sight. Which makes it all the more impressive that director Jordan Peele managed to get under the skin of the entire world with the Sunken Place sequence in 2017’s . African-American hero Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is visiting the home of his girlfriend Rose’s (Allison Williams) parents — seemingly liberal, definitely white — and is heading back inside from a late-night smoke when the mother, trained hypnotherapist Missy (Catherine Keener), invites him into her study for a little chat. A chat which turns, almost imperceptibly, into a full-blown nightmare, as she uses a teacup and spoon to freeze his body and drop him into a world of inky nothingness. From the creepy small talk to the shocking surreality of Chris’ plummet into the Sunken Place, it’s a tour de force by Peele and his troupe, who here talk through the shoot and beyond.

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