Get Out receives four Academy Award nominations

Jordan Peele's horror film Get Out, which has received praise for its performances and thought-provoking take on race in America, received four Academy Award nominations Tuesday, including one for best picture.

Peele made history becoming the first black director to receive nominations in the writing, directing, and producing categories for his first feature film.

Peele tweeted his gratitude to the fans that made the movie both a critical and commercial success:

Right now I’m just thinking about everyone who bought a ticket and told someone else to. You did this. Thank you. ✊🏾

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) January 23, 2018

Get Out was nominated for:

Best Picture

Directing: Jordan Peele

Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Kaluuya

Original Screenplay: Jordan Peele

Trailer for the horror film The 6TH Friend

Check out this trailer for The 6th Friend due out in 2017.

"In this slasher film with a paranormal twist, six college best friends throw their own private graduation party when the stoner of the group orders in a psychedelic from her drug dealer, who sticks around to join in their fun. Drugged and disoriented, the girls’ special night quickly becomes a dark, foggy nightmare of blood and violence. Five years later, the girls gather together once again in hopes of rekindling that close friendship that they once had, only to find themselves being hunted by who, or what, they do not know."

Starring stars Jamie Bernadette (Lead in upcoming sequel "I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu", All Girls Weekend), Chantelle Albers, Dominique Swain (Lolita, Alpha Dog), Jessica Morris (One Life to Live, The Wrong Roommate), Tania Nolan (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Step Dave), and Monique Rosario. Co-Written by Leria Clouston and Jamie Bernadetter and Directed by Letia Clouston .

Trailer for upcoming horror movie "Don't Breathe"

Check out the trailer for the upcoming horror film, "Don't Breathe". The film is set to be released in theaters August 26, 2016.

FILM SYNOPSIS: A trio of reckless thieves breaks into the house of a wealthy blind man, thinking they’ll get away with the perfect heist. They’re wrong.

Trailer for upcoming horror film, The Boy

Greta (The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan) is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family’s 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta’s worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.

In Theaters January 22, 2016