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

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...

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

Poised to become a summer blockbuster, The Blackening is a hilarious horror-comedy romp that’s smart and self-aware.

Comedy shorts have played the role of the new vaudeville for years now. The short-film format serves as the modern-day Orpheum Circuit, a proving ground wher...

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. ...

Tim Story directs The Blackening, a timely horror comedy that celebrates Black culture with plenty of scares. Read our review here.

"The Blackening," a potent blend of horror and comedy, boldly parodies and challenges the genre's tropes, specifically those around Black characters.

Read Empire's review of the new comedy-horror-parody.

TIFF: Tim rare short turned feature that retains the charm and laughs of the original.

A group of friends head for a cabin in the woods only to face off with a killer in this fresh horror spoof, from the writer of Girls Trip.

"We can't all die first."

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

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

This film speaks directly to Black audiences, brings them into its wry reworking of of well-worn tropes, allowing them to be wholly in on the joke

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

The premise at the center of this horror-comedy is still great.