Best of 2019: How Us Cinematographer Michael Gioulakis Captured Doppelgangers in the Dark

*We’re reposting some of our favorite interviews of 2019.

“I have an aversion to moonlight, at least in movies.” So says cinematographer Michael Gioulakis, who had ample opportunity to capture dark spaces in Jordan Peele‘s critically acclaimed horror film Us. Peele’s follow-up to Oscar-nominated thriller Get Out casts Lupita Nyog’o as a high-strung mother who’s being stalked, along with her husband (Winston Duke) and kids (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex),

Behold David Ehrlich’s Epic Supercut of 2019’s Best Films

As the end of the year draws near, the world is blanketed in Best Of lists. The best 10 films of the year. The best 20 films of the year. The best albums, the best TV shows, the best this and the best that. You can hardly do better than Slate‘s movie critic Dana Stevens’ year-end list, but if you’re more of a buffet than a sit-down meal kind of person,

How Us Costume Designer Kym Barrett Spooked Audiences With Jumpsuits

Happy Halloween! Quick, how many of you are donning red overalls and going as the deadly doppelgangers from Us? Even if writer/director Jordan Peele isn’t really into the idea, there’s no denying the power of this simple garb to instill terror. The monsters in Us are hatched not from labs or lagoons or outer space, but from all-American inequities, so it’s only fitting that they wear all-American denim.

How Us Cinematographer Michael Gioulakis Captured Doppelgangers in the Dark

“I have an aversion to moonlight, at least in movies.” So says cinematographer Michael Gioulakis, who had ample opportunity to capture dark spaces in Jordan Peele‘s critically acclaimed horror film Us. Peele’s follow-up to Oscar-nominated thriller Get Out casts Lupita Nyog’o as a high-strung mother who’s being stalked, along with her husband (Winston Duke) and kids (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex), by homicidal doppelgangers.

Voice Over Artist Roy Samuelson on Bringing Films like Us & Spider-Man: Far From Home to the Blind

Voice over artist Roy Samuelson has been heard by millions of blind and low vision audiences in some of this year’s biggest films. Samuelson’s job is to narrate a special audio track in which he voices the visuals that are relevant to the plot. There are currently 26 million adults in America who are blind or low vision, so the work folks like Samuelson is doing is crucial. Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu currently include audio description,

Breaking Down the Sinister Symbolism of Us

Hopefully, you had the thrill of jumping down the rabbit hole this weekend and into a whole new movie monster universe with Us. Lupita Nyong’o as Red is an instant icon and introduced an entirely new form to fear. The deadly doppelgängers of Us will surely fill the streets this Halloween. Don’t run with scissors, kids! For now, we’re stilling trying to process the layers and layers of messages and meaning Jordan Peele packed into his masterful mythology.

Jordan Peele Hints Us is as Cerebral as it is Terrifying

Starting tonight, it is Us vs. them. Jordan Peele’s daring doppelgänger thriller premieres tonight and it is truly unbelievable. Being hailed as a masterpiece, Peele’s second film is unforgettable and will chill you to the bone.

Collider interviewed the filmmaker about his latest horror creation and we kept our ears open for clues about the film. Here are a few moments that got our minds ticking.

Us Has a Creepy Cool Soundtrack and Unforgettable Remix

We saw Us at SXSW and it is an insane and scary mind twister that is satisfying in every way – down to the music. Remember back to our favorite Christmas present of waking up and watching the very first trailer? It opened with the Wilson family singing along to the Luniz classic “I Got 5 On It” on their way to the beach. The jam will officially be featured on the movie’s soundtrack along with some other great hits.

Humor, Horror, and Unpredictable Twists: Us Lives Up to the Hype

Us is unlike anything you’ve ever felt before, on every level. It would seem foolish to expect any film to live up to the hype of that gloriously ambiguous trailer – released this past Christmas – much less the fanfare that comes with a long-queuing SXSW opening night premiere. I joined the line just before 1 pm in the afternoon, a full five and a half hours before the film was set to begin.

International Us Trailer is a Trail of Terrifying Images

Is the Wilson family hitting some bad luck? Or is there truly someone out to get them? A new international trailer for Us reveals even more freaky footage of the unsettling imposter movie.

The two-minute look at the film promises terror after terror. A family beach vacation with a few strange events leaves Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) feeling uneasy, but the nightmare has just begun. No one likes being replaced,

The Wilsons Face Deadly Doppelgängers in New Us TV Spot

The trailers for Us just get crazier and crazier. Jordan Peele knows how to drill straight to the heart of terror.

For Get Out it was a fate worse than death. Can anyone honestly drink out of a teacup again without fearing they’ll be pulled into The Sunken Place? The body snatching while still sentient horror made us afraid of something we didn’t even know to be scared of until he wrote it.

The New Us Trailer Is Supremely Unnerving

The latest Us trailer will have you seeing sinister intent in every coincidence for the rest of our day. A series of unsettling images that seem a little too perfect and a lot too creepy are the next window we have into the world of Jordan Peele’s upcoming thriller.

When things start to unfold rather conveniently on a family beach vacation, Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) begins to suspect things may be about to go wrong.

Jordan Peele on What Makes Us Different

What is Jordan Peele’s Us really about? This is the question that been’s intriguing fans and film lovers alike since the film’s title was released. His Oscar-winning, game-changing directorial debut Get Out was hard to categorize. The consensus on how to label that brilliant debut landed on calling it a “social thriller.” It was a film that managed to be many things at once (laser sharp social critique,

The Bone-Chilling Trailer for Jordan Peele’s Mysterious Us Has Arrived

How well do you really know yourself? Hopefully, well enough to outsmart another you if it should ever attack. This is the terrifying new premise that we didn’t even know we were afraid of until Jordan Peele made it into a nightmare. The first trailer for Us is here and it is more awesomely unsettling than we ever imagined.

Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) and Gabe (Winston Duke) Wilson look like loving, happy,

Jordan Peele’s Us Will Reportedly Be a Monster Mythology

Details about Jordan Peele’s next horror film are slim, but he’s already serving a serious mood. We got chills from the first poster and don’t even really know why yet. If the image is any indicator, Us is going to do to scissors what Get Out did to teacups. Take a mundane object and terrify us with it. The project is still shrouded in mystery, but Entertainment Weekly is starting to unravel the secrets with amazing new images from the film.

Here’s the Poster for Jordan Peele’s Next Horror Film Us

Of all the films that you’re excited to see in 2019, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that Jordan Peele’s Us should be at or near the top of the list. The Oscar-winning writer/director of Get Out is back with his new social horror film, and Universal has just released the poster. While little is known about Us, the fact that it’s written and directed by Peele is really the only thing you should need to know to make this one of your must-see films in 2019.

Jordan Peele Announces His Directorial Follow-Up to Get Out

If DVD boxsets were a thing in the future, there would someday be a Criterion Collection dedicated to Jordan Peele horror films. That is something that we never could have conceived of 3 years ago, but in a post-Get Out world, it absolutely delights us. Peele has announced his next tale of terror will be titled simply Us, and even teased us with some stunning artwork.

We barely just learned of the existence of Us,