The Blackening queries a lot of tropes in horror movies – not least that the black guy always dies first…

For anyone who loves a cheesy Cabin In The Woods movie, The Blackening is full of great post-modern gags using familiar horror tropes as a way into not just how Hollywood stereotypes black characters, but, more incisively, how American black culture is constantly pitted against itself

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