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.
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The social commentary swings from pop to political, all with the same light but incisive tone, which is what makes “The Blackening” both entertaining and trenchant. But in terms of suspense and horror filmmaking, the movie is lacking. It’s not scary, the villain seems obvious from the jump, and there are a few missed opportunities and loose ends, storywise. It succeeds as a comedy but not quite as a horror film, the genre merely a setting and style for sending up insidious character stereotypes.
However, screenwriter Perkins delivers a starmaking performance as the ultra-bothered Dewayne, who is feuding with his best friend Lisa over her reunion with the formerly philandering Nnamdi . Though it’s an ensemble piece , your attention never leaves Perkins when he’s onscreen. Perhaps because he wrote and performed in both the original sketch and the screenplay, he seems more finely attuned to the rhythms and nuances of the material and the purpose that it is intended to serve.
Consider “The Blackening” not just a send-up, but a send-off to this old cliché. Here’s to finally killing “the Black character dies first” trope once and for all, and crossing our fingers that it doesn’t pop up again, Michael Myers style.R, for pervasive language, violence and drug use
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