We chat with TheBlackening writer TracyYOliver and director Tim Story about their delightfully subversive new comedy and how they turned a short film featuring the deconstruction of horror tropes into a full-fledged movie:
The racial politics of horror movies get delightfully deconstructed in The Blackening, written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins and directed by Tim Story . In a genre defined by the infamous cliche of "black person dies first," what happens when a group of black friends all gather together at a dilapidated cabin in the middle of a deep, dark forest? As the film's tagline says, "We can't all die first.
Screen Rant: At first, this was a short film. Tell me, at what point did it get picked up to be a feature, and then at what point did each of you get involved? Luckily, after I think two drafts, this wonderful person, Tim Story, decided to bless us by agreeing to direct it. Honestly, at that point, that's when everybody started taking it seriously as a movie. It was not taken seriously until Tim signed on. Seriously! You made it a movie.Tracy Oliver: And it's going to make a lot of money at the box office, I just wanted to point that out.
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