Comedian, director, and screenwriter Jordan Peele's horror film "Get Out" debuted at Sundance on Monday, Jan. 23. Reception to the film was positive, and viewers appreciated the approach Peele used to tackle sensitive issues such as race in his latest film.

According to Vulture, the horror film "Get Out" is about Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, "Skins"), a black man who meets the liberal parents of his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams, "Girls") for the first time. When Jordan Peele introduced the movie at Sundance, he shared that he wrote "Get Out" because he wanted to create his "favorite movie that doesn't exist." He also "very quickly realized it's a movie no one will ever make."

Horror films have long been used to explore "gender stereotypes and social fears," but one trope doesn't change: the lone black character in every film almost always dies first. "Get Out" already subverts this tired old trope by making the protagonist a black character.

The Vulture review states that "Get Out" is "one of the sharpest commentaries" that dares to show "what it's like to be black in a white world." As Chris and Rose pack for their trip to meet the latter's parents, she assures Chris that her parents will like him. The catch is, Rose hasn't told her parents that Chris is black.

When they meet Chris, Missy (Catherine Keener, "Being John Malkovich") and Dean (Bradley Whitford, "The West Wing") act welcoming, but things take a dark turn the longer the couple stays with Rose's parents.

Meanwhile, The AV Club also like Peele's "Get Out," and even described it as a "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "Stepford Wives" "mashup," which also gives clues as to the film's plot. The AV Club concluded that "Get Out" perfectly portrays itself "as a gauntlet of social horror that it almost doesn't need its more traditional thriller elements."