How Janelle Monáe and Antebellum filmmakers used horror to highlight racial injustice
,” the film couldn’t be coming at a more important moment in history, addressing America’s original sin of slavery through the lens of the horror-thriller film.
“It wasn’t an easy ‘Yes,’ because when you’re talking about the past, the present and what could be the future, it’s triggering,” Monáe says. “I struggle every single day when something comes across my timeline that is dealing with police and police brutality. … It’s painful to have to tell the truth about what police are doing to us or tell the truth about what happened to our ancestors.
“Our art is meant to activate and trigger,” Bush explains. “I would prefer that you be triggered within the safety of your own home and activated into action, then for this to happen in reality and for us to continue to live in an open-air shooting gallery.” Explaining why the horror-thriller genre made an appropriate framework for the tale, Bush says, “When you tell these stories from the perspective and through the prism of the Black American experience, it can be seen as nothing less than a horror. So, in my mind, when you look at movies like ‘Gone with the Wind,’ that’s a horror film. It’s an effective piece of propaganda, but it is still a horror film.
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