A montage of black and white photos accompany the song cycle’s sombre warning. This is how director Jordan Peele and composer Michael Abels announce their collaboration, Get Out (2017). Abels’ score – often mannered and genteel – operates like a dog whistle as heard by those ancestors. This is the sound of Black aspirational horror, knowingly attenuated by Peele and Abels. In doing so, she is a heroic ‘free slave’, as well as a nightmarish Other returned to ‘replace’ Adelaide (Black empowerment and The Great Replacement being persistent fears of white supremacists).