the blackening: the cast stares at the camera, the light of a television lighting their faces

The Blackening has a lot to say about black identity, about the tropes and cliches of how black actors are handled not just in horror films, but throughout the visual medium. It also wants to be funny, and it wants to be scary. It also wants to be very much for black audiences, but because this is a studio film, it has to balance that with being universal enough to draw in a wide audience. Tim Story has a lot of experience with that kind of thing to varying degrees, and I’m happy that this one lands on the same side of the fence as Barbershop: genuinely smart, funny, scary, and can balance its message without sacrificing everything else The Blackening needs to be. Yup, I really enjoyed this one.

Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…Coffee essential, but not mandatory

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Hooptober 12.0 – The Blackening (2022)