Director Tim Story's hilarious horror parody wonders how the Black character can die first when all the characters are Black
). Another game the friends are forced to play demands they choose the “Blackest” among them. Given that the players range from the bi-racial Allison to the brown-skinned Trump voter to others with Black credibility issues, declarations of Blackness become debatable with deadly consequences.The Blackening
ensures that no Black person dies in a silly fashion which is, in itself, a commentary on the history of how such characters have been dispatched in these types of films. Black characters die in some uniquely humiliating ways in horror. One example would be the fate of the only Black principal character in 1989’sJulius is a young Black boxer who throws down with Jason in a man-to-slasher donnybrook.
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