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I don't know if there's anything like Jordan Peele's blockbuster horror film Get Out. Oh, there have been low-budget Africentric horror movies before, and this one was definitely low-budget: it cost only $4.5 million when the average Hollywood film is around $80 million. But Get Out has earned a quarter of a billion dollars around the world, which further puts the lie to the Hollywood claim that audiences in Europe won't watch films starring African casts or featuring Africentric stories. Plus, Get Out is an extremely political film. I don't mean it's partisan, though: the villains in the film would seem at home at any US Democratic Party fundraiser or power-play. I mean it's political, in that it's an unforgettable and horrific satire on US Whitesupremacy. The film and its ideas are so powerful that its central metaphor "The Sunken Place" has entered our culture and vocabulary. And for all those reasons and more, horror writer and UCLA film studies instructor Tananarive Due knew she had to teach a course bui