Where was Get Out (2017) filmed?

Filming

Principal photography began on February 16, 2016. Shooting took place in Fairhope, Alabama for three weeks, followed by work at Barton Academy and in the Ashland Place Historic District in midtown Mobile, Alabama. The exterior and interior of the Armitage house were filmed just south of Fairhope. Principal photography lasted 23 days.

Although filmed in Alabama, Peele has said the story was not intended to read as set in the South; he wanted to avoid familiar regional stereotypes and instead place the film’s racism within a more outwardly “liberal” social environment. A contemporary report described the film as set in Upstate New York.

Peele has described developing the concept of the "sunken place" from the sensation of falling as one drifts to sleep, and from the idea of being trapped as an observer behind one’s own eyes while one’s body is controlled by someone else. In the same interview, he connected the idea to themes of abduction and to a metaphor for the prison industrial complex.

Lil Rel Howery has said the film’s allegory draws on the historical fears and traumas experienced by African Americans, and he cited events such as racial segregation and the murder of Emmett Till as part of that cultural context. Peele also expressed concerns before release about whether white audiences would resist being implicated as villains, and whether Black audiences would want to see Black characters placed in peril.