Racist horror tropes are the first to die in the slasher comedy ‘The Blackening’
In The Blackening, Lisa (Antoinette Robertson) and her friends try to survive a weekend getaway turned deadly. Glen Wilson/Lionsgate When Keenen Ivory Wayans's Scary Movie became a huge hit more than 20 years ago, the trope about Black characters in slasher flicks – that they're usually the first to die or rarely survive until the very end – was already decades old, and still going strong. One scene in the […]
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