Prepare to Be Jolted by Year's Best-Reviewed Film "Get Out"

The year's surprise smash hit, with a current US box-office gross of $111-million – Universal Pictures' suspense thriller Get Out is also shaping up as 2017's best-reviewed film todate.

(Watch Get Out' TV spots at http://youtu.be/ogzWzrTAvzg and http://youtu.be/J_mzdtmYUQk.)

The film currently boasts a “99 percent Fresh” rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which is higher than any movie released so far this year.

Opening March 15 in Philippine cinemas, Get Out stars Daniel Kaluuya as a young black photographer who heads upstate with his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) to meet her wealthy parents but encounters increasingly strange behavior. Critics are hailing the film as trenchant, entertaining, and frightening.

An American Evil Takes Form in "Get Out"

Universal Pictures’ Get Out, the film Variety calls a “bombshell social critique” that “proves positively fearless,” and The Hollywood Reporter raves is “one of the most satisfying thrillers in years,” is arriving in Philippine cinemas on March 15, coming off a smash No.1 opening in the US.

Watch the film’s trailer at https://youtu.be/bw_c4Bfjzsg.

From Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series and The Gift) and the mind of writer-director Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.

Horro-Thriller "Get Out" Tops US Box-office with $30.5-M, Opens in PH Mar 15

Universal Pictures' Get Out, a new horror-thriller about race relations, rode critical raves to a smashing box office debut at No.1 for the Feb. 24 – 27 weekend, according to Variety.

The low-budget film was the weekend’s top-grossing domestic release, earning $30.5 million, and propelling its director and writer Jordan Peele atop Hollywood’s A-list. The film, which centers on a black man who discovers that his girlfriend’s liberal, lily-white hometown is guarding a sinister secret.