![]() ![]() It takes a while before the group realizes that they’re down a few friends: the ones who organized the weekend, Morgan and Shawn ( Yvonne Orji and Jay Pharaoh), have been MIA all afternoon (they’re dead, of course, having died in the cold open). They’re welcomed by possibly racist Officer White ( Diedrich Bader)…who is white (one of the film’s more on-the-nose jokes), then explore the house, which has no shortage of locked and/or hidden rooms. The group’s history has already been unpacked on the road and at The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-esque gas station long before the group arrives at the palatial deserted cabin in the woods. There’s also lovable drunk Shanika ( X Mayo), dancer King ( Melvin Gregg), slightly neurotic light-skinned Allison ( Grace Byers) and awkward outcast Clifton ( Jermaine Fowler). Reuniting for a weekend of Spades and drinking after a ten-year gap, the group is made up of lawyer Lisa ( Antoinette Robertson), her former boyfriend (and current secret lover) Nnamdi ( Sinqua Walls), and her gay best friend Dwayne (Perkins) who still hasn’t forgiven Nnamdi for breaking Lisa’s heart back in college. It doesn’t hurt that the characters are extremely likable – to the point that when the bloodshed begins, you worry for their survival because no one is expendable. While the film isn’t Scream levels of meta, The Blackening fuses social commentary about the Black experience in contemporary America with slasher conventions in a highly entertaining fashion. Unbeknownst to them, the weekend is more than just a reunion: they’re being pitted against a Machiavellian game master intent on deciphering their level of Blackness in order to kill them in the appropriate order. ![]() Director Tim Story’s slasher The Blackening has a killer premise: if all of the characters are Black, who dies first? In the adaptation of 3peat’s Comedy Central short, co-writers Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Oliver strand a group of friends at a remote cottage in the woods for Juneteenth (yes holiday horror!). ![]()
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