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‘Us’ is scaring people away from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk

Set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline, Us, from Monkeypaw Productions, stars Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Black Panther’s Winston Duke), and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway. Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-a

News | March 29, 2019
By Kyle Nazario

If you've seen "Us," Jordan Peele's wildly successful horror movie, you know it opens with a tense scene at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.

There’s no more that can be said without spoilers, but suffice it to say the movie left an impression.

The San Francisco Chronicle noted some people on Twitter were not in a rush to see the boardwalk.

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One person even tweeted some photos of “Us” being filmed on the boardwalk.

“Us” grossed more than $70 million at the domestic box office during its opening weekend. It was the largest opening weekend ever for an original horror movie.

The movie stars Lupita Nyong’o as the mother of a family that meets scary versions of themselves while on vacation at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.

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