Release Date
June 16, 2023
Digital Date
July 7, 2023 (Premium VOD)
DVD Release Date
August 22, 2023 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Tim Story
Writer
Tracy Oliver, Dewayne Perkins
Cast
Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins, Sinqua Walls, Grace Byers
Studio
Running Time
97 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for pervasive language, violence and drug use
What is The Blackening about?
Seven black friends go away for the weekend only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive?
Probably not.
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When you stack the deck with Black people, they can’t all die first. That’s the humorous concept of The Blackening, a horror-comedy that pokes fun at the fact that in many horror movies, it’s the Black person who is first to bite the bullet (or get stabbed, or eaten by a shark). The problem: the movie isn’t very funny.
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