This article contains spoilers for Get Out throughout. Discussion of Us will avoid spoilers until the Ending section.

With Get Out and Us (and hopefully the new Twilight Zone on CBS All Access), Jordan Peele has firmly established himself as the new master of horror filmmaking. With just two features under his belt, he's already joined the likes of Spielberg, Tarantino and Nolan on the small list of directors whose name alone can sell ambitious original films to mass audiences.

It's generally agreed, based on both critic and audience responses, that Get Out is a somewhat better film overall than Us, but it's still something of an apples to oranges comparison. While they're both horror films sharing an auteur sensibility, they're different styles of horror with decidedly distinct ambitions. That Peele is able to pull off such range in his first two films is evidence of his immense directing talent.

RELATED: Why Jordan Peele is Unlikely to Cast White Lead: 'I've Seen That Movie'

For those wondering just how Get Out and Us compare to each other, here are four major differences in style and content between the two films.

GET OUT IS MORE COMEDIC

Before you come at us, we want to be clear that we don't consider Get Out to be primarily a comedy and we agree the Golden Globes designating it as such was questionable. As seriously horrifying as its story is, though, Get Out is a hilarious film. It's a brutal satire that mines laughs from discomfort. Nearly every classic horror trope encountered is matched with knowing recognition of said tropes by comic relief and ultimate hero Rod Williams (Lil Rel Howery).

RELATED: Jordan Peele May Be This Generation's Alfred Hitchcock

Us contains comic relief as well, mainly from Winston Duke playing Abraham as a sentient dad joke and some twistedly funny supporting turns by Tim Heidecker and Elisabeth Moss. Here, though, the laughs are purely there for relief, rather than being baked into the narrative like in Get Out. Nobody, not even the Golden Globes, are going to mistake Us for a comedy.

US GETS THE SCARES GOING EARLIER

The Doppelgangers Stare Creepily In Jordan Peele's Us

One of the most frequent questions those who haven't seen Us ask about the film is, "How much scarier is it than Get Out?" With Peele selling Us as a "true horror" movie in contrast to Get Out's "social thriller," some who were already frightened by Get Out aren't sure if they can handle Us.

The individual scares in Us aren't much worse than the worst scares in Get Out. It's not too gory and the film avoids jump scares. What is different about Us is that there's more of those scary scenes than there were in Get Out. Where Get Out doesn't become truly terrifying until its big third act reveal, Us is spooky from the first scene, and the violent home invasion mayhem starts early on. Get Out's approach to fear was more intellectual, a mystery with a disturbing answer. Us is more visceral, freaking you out before any semblance of explanation arrives.

NEXT PAGE: You May Not Know How to Feel About the Ending to Us

GET OUT'S MESSAGE IS CLEAR-CUT

Watch Get Out once and you'll easily understand everything the movie is trying to say. You'll want to watch it more times to pick up on all the brilliant little details, of course, but it makes its main point crystal clear. Get Out is a satire on cultural appropriation, how racism worms its way into white liberal circles and how those who consider themselves "colorblind" can still be complicit in white supremacy.

RELATED: Us Could Be Universal's Solution to Its Dark Universe Problem

The central metaphor of Us doesn't explain itself in the same way. You can read it as being about class struggle or about general survival of trauma, but its action is so abstracted that one-to-one parallels to individual issues naturally end up messy. You'll have to think on Us a bit to figure it out, and then you'll want to see it a second time to be sure you're understanding it.

THE ENDINGS (SPOILERS AHEAD!)

Us Hands Across America

Get Out was originally going to end on a downer note, with Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) going to jail. After the 2016 election, this ending was deemed too much of a downer and replaced with the "Rod to the rescue" ending we all know and love. The Armitage family is defeated and the audience can leave the theater happy.

RELATED: Movie Legends: Did Get Out Have Another Alternate Ending?

Leaving Us, the audience might not know what to feel. Adelaide, Lupita N'yongo's protagonist, defeats her doppelganger, Red, but her son figures out that she's been a Tethered all along. The rest of the Tethered, meanwhile, succeed in their "Hands Across America" stunt. There's many complicated emotions happening at once. The Tethered's victory is almost certainly bad news for people on the surface, yet we also understand why the Tethered are doing what they're doing. Everyone's a villain and a victim at once, and those feelings are messy.