Racist Horror Tropes are the First to Die in the Slasher Comedy 'The Blackening'
Briefly

In a breezy 90 minutes, the crew's dynamic is clearly established and challenged as grudges are resurfaced, crossbows get flung, and bodies start dropping.The delight is derived from the highly specific comedic details, which consistently manage to take well-worn observations about Black culture - a fraught relationship with the TV show Friends and how certain signifiers might mark some people as "Blacker" than others, for starters - and stretch them in a myriad of unexpected directions.
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