The 26th SXSW Film Festival will open on March 8 in Austin featuring Jordan Peele’s “Us,” the world premiere for the much-anticipated follow-up to the film “Get Out.” The nine-day Texas Hill Country festival will be home to those wishing to celebrate creativity and innovation in film, for which Peele has been lauded. Similar to “Get Out,” the film “Us” is anticipated as a social thriller of the horror genre.
Starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke, the plot of “Us” focuses on a woman returning to her childhood home at the beach. Her husband and two children are in tow for a vacation that goes awry when a past unresolved trauma of hers is unearthed. Through twists and turns, it leads to the family’s torment by eerie doppelgangers of themselves. The film will see its theatrical release in the U.S. on March 22 under Universal Pictures. Since the filmmaker believes “we are our own worst enemies,” the opening of the SXSW Film Festival with Peele’s brand of horror mythology definitely speaks to the mantra.