Following the runaway smash success of his directorial debut “Get Out,” awards season acclaim, Oscar nominations (including a Best Original Screenplay win), and the creation of the mooted “social horror” genre, filmmaker Jordan Peele returned at the just-wrapped SXSW Film Festival with his new film”Us.”

An ambitious follow-up horror, “Us” is not for the faint of heart. Employing the social horror design again, Peele pushes the envelope even further, mines some “Twilight Zone” terrain and explores uncharted territory, as he uses a divided America as the catalyst for a fight between the have and have nots, and what happens when the lines between the two begin to blur.

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