From 'Candyman' to 'Antebellum,' this fall is cementing the Black horror revolution.
) as Veronica Henley, a successful author and outspoken voice on systemic racism and sexism who finds herself trapped on a slave plantation. Discussions about the way Hollywood depicts slavery have intensified over the past few years, and— which examines how we deal with the country’s disgraceful history — confronts that trauma head-on with unsparing depictions of brutality and torture on the plantation.
Horror, put simply, provides a fitting artistic vehicle for these narratives. Says DaCosta, “I think the fact that you can have all these movies that are ostensibly about racism, but are all about different aspects of it, just shows you how much storytelling is out there for Black filmmakers, because not every movie needs to be about the violence of racism." And these aren’t history lessons, either. They’re movies, after all—bloody, scary, and at times sharply funny.
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