IMDb plot summary: The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Brandon Perea.
Nope is Jordan Peele's newest movie, focused on a family of Hollywood animal trainers whose business is quickly losing money after the patriarch is killed in a freak accident. But as weird things start happening, they start to wonder if their ranch is the site of some sort of extraterrestrial activity. Peele just keeps making it work -- this is another really solid entry in his filmography. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer are truly delightful as two siblings who could not be more different but band together to keep things going for their family business. I absolutely love the design of the creature they're chasing. It truly captures the terror of what we don't know or understand. I also love that so much of the horror happens in the middle of the day, under gorgeous bright blue skies and in wide open spaces. It brings a western sensibility to the horror genre which was a ton of fun. While I wasn't as taken with the underlying meaning as I have been with Peele's previous efforts, this one definitely delivers on scares and action and tension, and it's worth seeing!
How it entered my Flickchart:
Nope > Spellbond (1945)
Nope > Woman in the Dunes
Nope < Castle in the Sky
Nope < The Pawnbroker
Nope > Judas and the Black Messiah
Nope > Anomalisa
Nope > The Incredibles
Nope > Role Models
Nope > Jeepers Creepers
Nope > The Farewell
Nope < Spencer
Final spot: #687 out of 3644, or 81%.
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