Official Trailer
Our Review
- Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins, Grace Byers, Sinqua Walls
- August 25th 2023
- Tim Story
A group of Black friends are forced to play a board game called The Blackening otherwise one of them dies.
In movie rules, nothing good ever happens at a cabin in the woods.
And that is certainly true in Tim Story’s The Blackening, which follows a bunch of Black friends as they reunite in a remote Airbnb for the first time in 10 years.
When night falls, the group are locked into a room and forced to play The Blackening, a board game that pressures them to prove their Blackness by answering a series of questions. If they get the answer wrong or refuse to participate, one of them dies.
The Blackening smartly satirises classic horror tropes, particularly the one where the Black character usually dies first, as well as racial stereotypes. The script is witty and full of hilarious jokes, although the comedic momentum does dip here and there in the latter half.
Even though the characters aren’t fully fleshed out, there is still an interesting dynamic between our friendship group, which consists of Allison (Grace Byers), Lisa (Antoinette Robinson), Dewayne...
