The Blackening: The cleverly satirical horror-comedy is a must-see this summer | ✍️ SheriFlanders
shines in simultaneously leveraging horror movie tropes while also avoiding falling into cliche.
A thoughtful and unapologetically Black lens ensures that Black viewers will leave the theater laughing—and not traumatized by gratuitous racial violence. But make no mistake, audiences from all backgrounds will find this movie accessible and hilarious, a unique offering in the grand tradition of other horror-comedy flicks, such asis a must-see summer flick.
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