The Blackening Movie: Plot, Cast, Trailer

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It’s a well-known state of affairs: a bunch of pals head as much as a cabin within the woods for a soothing weekend, solely to seek out themselves being picked off by a murderous intruder. In “The Blackening,” although, the primary characters are well-aware of horror-movie tropes — and decided to not fall into them.

“The Blackening” follows a bunch of Black pals on a getaway in celebration of Juneteenth. But once they discover themselves trapped with a killer, a variety of comedy and gore ensue. Based on a 2018 brief movie of the identical identify by comedy sketch group 3Peat, the film appears hell-bent on slaughtering probably the most drained horror-movie clichés.

In 2022, Dewayne Perkins — who wrote and starred within the brief movie that the film is predicated on and in addition wrote and stars within the full-length movie — elaborated on the premise in an interview with Collider. “The intent was to take tropes and then expand them to force the audience to realize tropes are also human beings. My character is a ‘gay best friend,’ which is a trope that is in movies,” he mentioned. “Usually, [gay best friends are] regulated to the side to be a person who gives humor, or they are part of a joke. So being able to take these tropes and find exactly what makes them complex, what gives them depth, and then forcing that in the movie so that when you start watching it, you see what has been in horror movies before and then the goal of the movie is to constantly break down your assumptions of these characters by constantly forcing depth.”

Here’s every thing we learn about “The Blackening.”

“The Blackening” Cast

“The Blackening” stars Perkins, Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo, Antoinette Robertson, and Sinqua Walls, with Jay Pharoah and Yvonne Orji.

“The Blackening” Plot

“The Blackening” follows a bunch of seven pals who rejoice Juneteenth with a visit to a distant cabin. Soon, although, one in all their pals is kidnapped by a killer. In a terrifying video, the killer calls for that — consistent with the offensive and cliché horror-movie trope that always sees the Black character die first — the group sacrifice the Blackest one amongst them to be able to save the remaining.