Get Out review: a ruthlessly smart racial send-up that's also terrifying

In the opening moments of Get Out, as a mysterious, threatening figure stalks a wary black man who's lost his way in a suburban neighborhood at night, writer-director Jordan Peele declares his intentions in two clear ways. First: he openly invokes the death of Trayvon Martin, a black 17-year-old killed in a gated community by a man who assumed he was a criminal because of his skin color. Second: Peele lets the scene play out like a familiar horror movie sequence, complete with stabbing musical j...