The Blackening review: Slasher satire slaughters tired tropes

'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.

Tim Story’s charming horror-comedy offers witty banter and satisfying specificity for an entertaining commentary on the Black American experience.

"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.

It hits UK cinemas on 23rd August!

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

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

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 s...

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 scares are bland and the jokes poorly written

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

“The Blackening” is a horror farce in the tradition of the “Scary Movie” and “A Haunted House” franchises, a send-up of Black horror and Black ho...

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

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

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

Premiering at TIFF, the new horror-comedy from Tim Story (“Barbershop”) takes the tired cliché of Black people dying first in horror movies and turns it...

The original short directed by Chioke Nassor asked a group of Black friends to choose who among them was the "blackest" as a sacrifice to save the rest. Why?...

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.