‘The Blackening’ Puts a Clever Twist on a Horror Trope
A recurring motif in American horror films slaps the mind awake. A mysterious killer is on the loose, and the Black character is the first to die. Slasher films have long had a particular…
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Review: Horror-comedy ‘The Blackening’ drives a stake into the heart of a…
Horror-comedy “The Blackening” started as a way to skewer a tired trope: the frequency with which Black characters are killed first in horror movies. Though this cliché has been called out…
Racist horror tropes are the first to die in the slasher comedy ‘The…
In The Blackening, Lisa (Antoinette Robertson) and her…