


Metadata and artwork from TMDB. Not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
survival
2022 · R · 2h 10m
What's a bad miracle?
Yeah so about that thing in the sky.. what do we do?
On a remote California horse ranch, siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood begin noticing something wrong — equipment failing, animals disappearing, and something in the clouds above their valley that shouldn't be there. What starts as a search for proof becomes a confrontation with something vast and entirely outside human experience. Jordan Peele's third film is a slow-burning spectacle about exploitation, the gaze, and what happens when humanity tries to commodify what it cannot control.
Tags
Based on 1 rating
7.0
Overall
OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald (Keke Palmer) Haywood run a horse ranch in a remote California valley — the only Black-owned horse trainers in Hollywood. Their father was killed by debris that fell from the sky: a coin driven into his eye by something unseen. OJ stays on the ranch; Emerald wants out.
They begin noticing electronics failing and horses spooked before disappearing entirely. Then they see it: something in the clouds, disguised as a cloud — a massive predatory creature that descends to consume anything that moves beneath it. It's been there a long time.
Across the road, former child actor Ricky "Jupe" Park (Steven Yeun) runs Jupiter's Claim, a Western-themed tourist park. In flashback, we see what shaped him: as a child he survived a chimpanzee attack on set that killed multiple crew members. Jupe has been secretly feeding horses to the creature, believing he has an understanding with it. He sells tickets to a live encounter. The creature consumes his entire audience.
OJ and Emerald, joined by a Fry's Electronics employee named Angel and legendary cinematographer Antlers Holst, set out to capture undeniable footage of the creature. Its rule: it only attacks things that look directly at it. OJ exploits this — driving ahead of it with eyes down, never meeting its gaze, drawing it away from Emerald.
Antlers, obsessed, looks directly into the creature. It consumes him. OJ rides his horse straight at it and is consumed too. Emerald uses a giant inflatable figure from the park as bait — the creature tries to swallow it, gets tangled in its tether, and ruptures. She photographs it as it dies. The film ends with her on horseback, shot captured, the sky empty.
More Like This
Reviews
No reviews yet. Be the first.