LOS ANGELES : For actor Antoinette Robertson, being in the horror comedy movie “The Blackening” with an all-Black main cast was an opportunity to combine comedy and cultural healing after years of witnessing the racist trope of Black people dying first in horror films. It was also a chance to let the
LOS ANGELES : For actor Antoinette Robertson, being in the horror comedy movie “The Blackening” with an all-Black main cast was an opportunity to combine comedy and cultural healing after years of witnessing the racist trope of Black people dying first in horror films.
"It feels like we're letting the world in on our group chat as a culture," said Robertson, known for her role in the TV series"Dear White People."The Lionsgate movie follows a group of seven Black friends from college who take a Juneteenth trip to a cabin in the woods and are confronted by a killer that assesses their degree of blackness to determine who to kill first.
In the canon of American horror films, the Black character is often introduced for the sake of being killed off first without any place within the central story plot. The all-Black ensemble in “The Blackening” provides a different kind of storyline.
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