Slasher Meets Satire in ‘The Blackening’
We’ve all heard the joke, we’ve all seen the sketches, it constantly trends on any social media platform that you can name: how differently would a horror movie go with an all-Black cast?
The concept has evolved from a way to poke fun at tropes both tired and beloved to a running gag in itself in a genre that often seems to depend on dumb decision-making. Why not run out the door rather than back into the house? Why run towards the suspicious noise, the blood and guts, rather than away? Why disregard every single damn warning? And why, why, why split up?
