Villain puts friends’ racial status to the test in satirical take on those frightful nights in the woods.

Brimming with satire and social commentary, the movie takes aim at genre and pop culture clichés with screenwriter and actor Dewayne Perkins emerging as a standout star.

Nine old college chums gather in a house, but the who's-the-Blackest? banter is sharper than the scares.

Juneteenth cabin-in-the-woods horror story has some killer ideas

There won’t be blood in this super-smart cabin-in-the-woods movie

'The Blackening,' Tim Story's horror-comedy, is a sometimes hilarious take on scary-movie stereotypes and Black culture. Dewayne Perkins stars.

As horror/comedies go, The Blackening is one of thebetter ones. A satire in the same vein as Scary Movie, it uses barbedsatire to skewer a host of horror movie tropes but does so with a specific perspective.Beneath all the gags, jokes, and one-liners...

The promotional line for “The Blackening” is so good – “We can’t all die first” – there was reason to fear the movie couldn’t live up to it. Yet like other self-referential horror/comedies (the “Scream” franchise come to mind), the film ably delivers on its premise, mining enough life from its satirical concept to deliver plenty of crowd-pleasing moments.

​T​im Story’s witty, character-driven ​horror-comedy recreates the killer-thriller movie through a Black lens

Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo, Dewayne Perkins, Antoinette Robertson, Sinqua Walls, Jay Pharoah, and Yvonne Orji star in a slasher about Black people surviving a Juneteenth killer. Review.

A group of college friends is forced by a masked killer with a crossbow to decide who among them is “the Blackest” and so will die first in Tim Story’s smart, funny take on an enduring horror trope.

‘The Blackening’ was a viral video from the Chicago-based comedy troupe 3Peat before it was a movie. The feature version, written by Tracy Oliver and 3Peat member Dewayne Perkins, is inevitably a looser and more fitfully entertaining affair.

Are we supposed to be scared or are we supposed to be laughing at the absurdity of it all?

With an opening red scrawl that reads, "The following is based on true events… that actually didn't happen!" you know what kind of movie you're in for with The Blackening. Written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins, the latest entry from the "storied" career of Tim Story (see what I did there?) is the funniest slasher film I've

Adapted from an online sketch about black characters tending to be killed off first in slasher films, this is good fun – as far as it goes

The Black character dying first is a racist staple of horror, which means it's a perfect target for a parody. Our The Blackening review:

The Blackening wastes a great horror-comedy premise on unfunny jokes.

The Blackening maintains its wit and bite to the very end, boastfully serving audiences a hilarious film we didn’t know we needed.

Expanded from a hilarious 2018 short film, “The Blackening” is a full-length, slightly attenuated comedy with a lot of very big laughs. You know how often I get to write that about a comedy? Not often enough.

Dismal horror spoof is just a dated, laugh-free cash-in

The slasher-flick parody features sharply drawn characters and effective satire of horror tropes.