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Information
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 96 min.
- Director
- Tim Story
- Genres
- Comedy, Horror
- Rating *
- 7.2
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 286
- Favs
- 4
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 1.4% (1:72)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
The tag line says it all - We Can't All Die First. The Blackening is therefore a black-cast slasher that tries to confound expectations by preying on what the audience knows is the standard tropes for this kind of movie. And while a lot of movies nowadays will try to get away from those particular clichés, I can think of several recent releases that fail to do so. For the knowing comedy to work, the tropes have to be acknowledged - a cabin in the woods, a spooky board game, and so on - and on the villainous side of things, there are clichés to the point of predictability (and few to the point of parody - lookin' at you, Carlton/Erkel guy). I'm reminded more of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies than Scream, but it's all in there. On the side of the heroes, however, the movies doesn't follow convention, and "blackness" is part of the theme, as the affable cast of characters is forced to examine or even prove their own in the course of one night of terror. 10 months 1 week ago