TheBlackening poster shows the cast armed and ready to defy the odds.
Lionsgate and MRC Entertainment have released the first poster for the upcoming slasher comedy The Blackening, via Bloody Disgusting. A trailer for the horror comedy is expected to arrive on March 1.
Per the movie's official plot synopsis,The Blackening follows "Seven black friends who go away for the weekend only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Based on a Comedy Central original short from 2018, The Blackening is directed by Tim Story from a script by Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Oliver . Perkins also stars in the upcoming film. Other cast members include Antoinette Robertson , Sinqua Walls , Grace Byers , X Mayo , Melvin Gregg , Jermaine Fowler , Yvonne Orji and Jay Pharoah .
“The intent was to take tropes and then expand them to force the audience to realize tropes are also human beings. My character is a ‘gay best friend,’ which is a trope that is in movies. Usually, they’re [‘gay best friends’] regulated to the side to be a person who gives humor, or they are part of a joke.
Check out the poster, as well as Collider's interview with film's cast and co-writer, below. The Blackening comes out June 16, 2023 - the weekend just prior to Juneteenth.
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