As a horror film director, Jordan Peele has a knack for creating creepy-as-hell villains that feel like something you’ve never seen before, but still seem familiar somehow. The Tethered from last year’s Us are no different—the red-jumpsuited doppelgängers wreaked havoc on Lupita Nyong'o and her fictional family, eventually taking over the country in a sick recreation of Hands Across America .

So… what now? Do the Tethered just keep going Tethered things, like zipping around like human spiders and muttering psycho unintelligibles? At an FYC screening held by Collider last week, Peele had an idea of what the Tethered might be up to after what went down in Us:

“The shorthand cheap version that I sort of would throw out as the general starting point guideline is, they’re doing what we’re doing but the scary version. Whatever that means, it’s the scary version. And the momentum that we’re trying to build thematically in the movie is trying to get to this idea that the version up here, the normal version, may be just as crazy as the below version even though we’re used to this kind of insanity. You know, our mania is in consumerism and one-upmanship, in cutting our faces open, going to amusement parks where we pay money to get in these devices where we scream. I wanted to sort of put this connection together [so], at the end of the film, you’re sort of left unsure who the scarier ones are.”

Peele’s right—watching the Tethered hold hands and hike through a peaceful-looking mountain range is a lot less terrifying than what’s going on in our country nowadays. Regardless, it’s good to see that Peele’s head is still with Us—maybe we could see what a post-Tethered-takeover America looks like someday.

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