Us is the 368th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Danielle Radford and Lon Harris. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2019 horror film Us. It was published on October 20, 2020, to coincide with the Halloween season. It is 5 minutes and 10 seconds long. It has been viewed over 700,000 times.
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"A film that Black people can finally point to and say, 'Hanging out with family sucks for us, too, you know.'" ~ Honest Trailers - Us'
Script[]
From Scare Jordan (Jordan Peele), comes his follow-up to the creepiest body-swap movie since Nine Lives...
Tom Brand as Mr. Fuzzypants (voiced by Kevin Spacey): Oh, Madison? I've been a bad kitty...
...in the smash hit packed with enough social commentary to trick snobs into watching more B-movie sci-fi horror flicks. (in a snooty accent) I only watch for the complex racial allegories. (Zora whacks Dahlia with a golf club) That's, uh... the Dred Scott decision.
Us
Enter the twisted nightmare of having to spend time in the woods with your lame-ass parents...
Gabe: You don't need the Internet. You got the Outernet.
...plus your dad's crappy work friends...
Josh: (while confiscating Kitty's drink) Ah, ah. What do we say?
Kitty: "I hate you"?
...and some ashy relatives your mom never told you about, in a film that Black people can finally point to and say, "Hanging out with family sucks for us, too, you know."
Gabe: WE MADE IIIIIIIIT!!!
Zora: Why?! Why?!
Jason: No, Dad!
Experience powerhouse dual performances by great actors unleashing their full range of crazy faces (montage of the Tethered contorting their faces), anchored by Lupita Nyong'o making a futile attempt to not look like a goddess, who puts other actors to shame with her left tear duct alone (shots of Adelaide and Red crying out of their left eye), and Winston Duke, a man with truly frightening levels of BDE...
Gabe: Hey.
..."Big Dad Energy".
Gabe: I'm just gonna watch the Giants highlights, okay?
You know, in any other horror movie, he'd be the dumb jock who dies first.
Gabe: (in a spinning motorboat) Got a cassette player and everything. Leather seats! Glove compartment!
See what a real messed-up family looks like with the arrival of the Tethered, doppelgangers with matching gold scissors (Umbrae threateningly fidgets with her scissors), special op hand gestures (montage of Red giving hand signals), and Venture Bros. speed suits.
Dean Venture: I look like Santa's magic janitor.
They're part of a subterranean clone army who walk like Sims (Red walks rigidly with a red Plumbob over her head), talk like they spent the night doing Slayer karaoke...
Red: --when the shadow was hungry, she had to eat rabbit, raw and bloody.
...and go down like a bunch of punks. (montage of the Tethered being easily dispatched) What's so scary about yourself trying to kill you? No one sucks more than me! (Adelaide impales Red in the chest)
Follow Jordan Peele on his evolution into the modern-day Hitchcock, who crafts deeply unsettling mysteries, then dumps exposition on you in the final act like the last scene of Psycho...
Dr. Fred Richmond: --he was simply doing everything possible to keep alive the illusion of his mother being alive!
...because while the Tethered were scarily effective as an allegory, the explanation that they're actually an underground experiment raises a few questions, like... (slowly speeding up)
- Is there a Tethered for everyone in America?
- How is there enough space underground for them?
- How many people must have known about these experiments?
- How did no one find out in the last 30 years?
- Surely they were using enough electricity, water, and raw materials to raise some red flags?
- Can the Tethered control their actions independently or not?
- If not, how are they executing this complicated plan?
- If so, why do they bother staying underground?
- Did the people who made the Tethered forget to lock the door on their way out?
- How do they have the same body-type as their double if their diet is 100% rabbit meat?
- The Tethered ate the rabbits but what did the rabbits eat?
- Where did they get thousands, if not millions, of red jumpsuits and scissors?
- How do they recreate everything in this small underground facility with just like classrooms and hallways?
- What about people who live in big apartment buildings? How do they mimic vertical differences?
- Are there just piles of poop in the tunnels?
- What happens to your Tethered when you travel outside of the country?
- Do they just wait for you at the border, or do they keep slamming into the wall like a video game character?
- What happens to your Tethered (and subsequently their corpse) when you die?
- Is my doppelganger's voice more epic sounding than everyone else's?
- Does Luniz get paid for the creepy trailer remix of "I Got 5 on It" or just the radio edit?
So grab your buddies to take the ultimate horror Rorschach test, where you'll see a bunny and think, "Ah, a clever nod to the Black folktale tradition of Br'er Rabbit," or, "Huh, Jordan Peele must've really hated his Toy Story 4 character,"...
Bunny: "To infinity and your mom!"
Ducky: Haha! That's-- Say, wait, what?
Bunny: Yeah.
...or, "You know what? Sometimes, a rabbit is just a rabbit. Now get your head out of your ass and go back to the stabby-stabby!"
Adelaide: (to Jason) You understand?
Jason: (shaking his head) Uh-uh.
Same.
Starring: Momz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Thomas-Wilson); Zora Neale Hurtin' (Shahadi Wright Joseph as Zora Wilson); Thigh Master (Winston Duke as Gabriel "Gabe" Wilson); Hehehe, Yeah, Fire-- Fire's Cool (Evan Alex as Pluto); Spagett! (Tim Heidecker as Tex); L'Oréal: Because You're Worth It (Elizabeth Moss as Dahlia); and Twiiiiiinz (The Tethered).
The honest title for Us was ‘Attack of the Clones’. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
Based on how frequently they appear in movies, you'd think people are walking through halls of mirrors, like, every day.
Viewer's Comments[]
Say: "your mother, was no Sharon Stone!" - J Qhart
Please say "Red is Suss" next episode!! 😂😂 - Jeremy Davis
For a fallen friend please say "If it's too loud, you're too old!" - Fatalroadie
Please say: "DELUUUUUSIONS!" in the style of Robert Pattinson. - Lauren Brown
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Production Credits[]
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Danielle Radford & Lon Harris
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert & Joe Starr
Edited by: Randy Whitlock
Post-Production Supervisor: Emin Bassavand
Supervising Producer: Max Dionne
Associate Producer: Ryan O'Toole
Executive Producer: Roth Cornet