2023 · horror · comedy · slasher
The Blackening
Directed by Tim Story1h 37m2023
Seven black friends go away for the weekend, only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. They must pit their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies against the murderer to stay alive.
Our read: The Blackening (2023) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive horror · comedy · slasher entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- funny
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