I love a good horror/comedy so when I found The Blackening on DVD at my local library, I was fired up. I had leftover Chinese food set up for dinner and with the rain pitter pattering on my camper roof, it was the perfect night for staying in. Popped the dinner in the microwave, popped the DVD in the player. On with the show!
I guess I was expecting more laughs. More edge-of-my-seat thrills. It’s a satire film, right? Well, if it weren’t for my amazing Mongolian Tofu from Tan’s Asian Cafe, the whole night would’ve been a bust. I’ll just say it plainly. The movie sucked. This comment on YouTube perfectly sums it up.
Any horror or humor that was welling up got tangled up with four things: One, the overuse of the ‘f’ word. Two, if the ‘n’ word is taboo, you wouldn’t know it by watching this film. Every other line had a “n this” or “n that.” It was exhausting to watch. Three, the random telepathy between a few of the characters. I mean, what? Four, some of the lines were delivered so fast I couldn’t understand what they were saying. A muddled mess is how I’d describe those conversations. It reminded me of this character from the Cosby Show. She spoke fast but did it so well.
Thank you.
That’s all Mr. Huxtable could say, and that’s about all I can say about this movie. Thank you for trying. Don’t make a sequel unless it’s actually funny or scary. Also, if you lose half of the cursing, it won’t hurt the plot a single bit. A few moments in the movie had me wondering this: if the roles were switched (and the movie was called The Whitening), would there be chaos in the streets? Probably. But in 2023, it’s culturally acceptable to debase white people so this movie gets a pass, even though the “satire” felt more like biased displeasure.
-Out of the Wilderness
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