Hello and welcome to another episode of MovieOutline Summary. Today we’re talking about the 2017 horror film Get Out, so let’s get started!
Chris Washington agrees to meet the family of his girlfriend Rose Armitage at the family’s countryside estate. Rose’s parents, neurosurgeon Dean and hypnotherapist Missy, greet Chris very warmly. However, things begin to take a sinister turn as the evening unfolds.
During dinner, Rose’s brother Jeremy makes unsettling comments about African Americans. Meanwhile, Chris notices that the housekeeper Georgina and the groundskeeper Walter are oddly compliant. Unable to sleep, Chris goes outside to smoke and witnesses some bizarre behavior: the groundskeeper Walter is seen startlingly running from the woods while Georgina stares cross-eyed at her reflection in the mirror.
Missy soon catches Chris returning and talks him into a hypnotherapy session to cure his smoking addiction. In a trance, Chris recounts the death of his mother that was involved in a hit and run when he was a child. He sinks into a void that Missy calls the sunken place. When Chris awakens, he believes it was just a nightmare until he realizes that his cigarettes now revolt him.
Walter apologizes for having disturbed him and confirms that Chris was in Missy’s office at the Armitage’s annual get-together, where several wealthy white people have taken an interest in him, admiring his physique. Jim Hudson takes particular interest, while Chris also meets a fellow African-American named Logan King, who starts acting strangely. Worried, Chris calls his friend TSA officer Rod Williams about the hypnosis and the bizarre behavior. He takes a photo of Logan to send to Rod, but the camera flash makes Logan hysterical, and he begs Chris to get out. The others then restrain Logan, claiming that he was having a seizure.
Away from the house, Chris persuades Rose to leave with him, while Dean holds an auction with a picture of Chris on display. At the auction, Jim Hudson wins, and Rod recognizes Logan as a missing person, suspecting a conspiracy. Rod tries to get the police involved, but he is mocked while packing to leave. Chris then finds photos of Rose and her prior relationships with other African Americans, including Walter and Georgina.
Suddenly, Rose blocks his exit. Missy hypnotizes Chris again and he awakens strapped to a chair. A video featuring Rose’s grandfather explains that the family transplants the brains of white people into African American bodies — and that the consciousness of the host remains in the sunken place, watching but powerless. Hudson informs Chris that he wants his body.
Chris quickly plugs his ears with cotton stuffing from the chair, blocking the hypnotic commands. When Jeremy comes to collect him for surgery, Chris bludgeons him, and shortly after, Dean knocks down a candle that sets the house on fire while he stabs Missy. Jeremy intercepts him at the door, but Chris brutally kills him. He takes the car and drives away, but in his escape, he accidentally hits Georgina. Remembering his mother’s own death, he carries Georgina into the car, but she is possessed by Rose’s grandmother and attacks him, which crashes the car and kills her.
In a final turn of events, Rose and Walter — who is actually possessed by Rose’s grandfather — catch up with him. Chris awakens the real Walter with a phone flash, who then takes Rose’s rifle, shoots her, and then kills himself. Chris begins to strangle Rose, but cannot bring himself to finish her off. At that moment, the police appear, only to be revealed as his friend Rod in a TSA car. In the end, they both drive away together.
That concludes our breakdown of Get Out. If you have another film you’d like to see spoiled, please let us know in the comments below.
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