Horror
Noire A History Of Black Horror 8/10
Last
night Cam and I went to see this documentary at The Egyptian Theater
called Horror Noire A History Of Black Horror. It was very well done
and I learned a lot of shit I had no idea about regarding horror
films and the history of Black people in them. The way they showed
trends and how they evolved with the times flowed really well.
Starting with how Blacks could not even portray Blacks and were
instead played by White people in blackface. Later when Black people
were allowed in films they were just the butt of jokes. Later there
were blaxplotation movies where Black people were either pimps,
hookers, or drug addicts and in the 80's as more Whites moved from
urban areas their own homes became the threat but still related to
Black people or in the case of Poltergeist Native American ghosts. In
the 90's they show movies like Tales From The Hood and others and how
hip hop artists were into horror as a genre and incorporated it into
their movies and eventually started appearing in those movies. This
culminates with Get Out and the praise heaped upon that movie. All
praise is due because that movie was fucking great. Wish they had
touched on Sorry To Bother You. Really good documentary sponsored by
that channel Shudder. There was some talk before the documentary
followed by a Q&A that was so badly handled that me and Cam ended
up leaving. I wanted to shout “Somebody make Candyman hold the mike
to his face!” There was someone else there that annoyed the shit
out of me but I won't mention her by name publicly but if you were
there or know about her you know exactly who I am talking about.
Christ, she just stepped on people trying to talk. Also, fuck
everyone that kept whipping out their phones to check their social
media accounts during the entire show. Still. Good documentary. Q&A
could have been handled better. I want a poster from the documentary
for my friend. Why were they not for sale?
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