Jordan Peele calls the dopplëgangers the Tethered, and he views them as monsters that could stand alongside Universal’s Dracula, the Wolfman, etc. Unlike Get Out, Us is not a commentary about race, but is simply a horror movie that happens to feature a black family– which is unique in and of itself.
Us see’s the family of Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke’s characters terrorized by their dopplegängers during a family trip to the beach.