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Here are Black horror films that express the larger range and broader facets of Black storytelling and existence.
The trio forms a tenuous triangle of Black folks debilitated by the pain they still feel from slavery.
Beloved becomes an albatross around Sethes neck as she tries to atone for the lost years.
Demmes adaptationsucceeds in part because Morrison doesnt ground the horror in the physical destruction of Black bodies.
Twenty-two years later, four teens buy the place in hopes of converting it into a nightclub.
The legendary Pam Grier totally commits as a moaning neighborhood psychic, Boness former lover.
The roaches not only grow to the size of dogs, they acquire superintelligence.
At one point, they use a raw whole chicken tied to a string as bait for the exterminators.
In another instance, a roach fires a gun.Buggedisnt out to impart some deeper lesson.
It instead takes well-earned glee in simply being a ludicrous and fun throwback B-movie.
While most aimed for campiness, writer-director Bill Gunns sensual, rapturous masterpieceGanja & Hessstands above the rest.
Their future is disrupted, first when Charlotte becomes pregnant and then when Ben dies in a freak accident.
His mother and seemingly nice stepbrother (Jack Lowden) house Charlotte at their stuffy country estate.
It doesnt take long, however, before she realizes that their kindness hides insidious intentions.
Its too intelligent a movie for such easy swings.
In the process, the cultures of these regions were leveraged mostly for shock rather than understanding.
Wes CravensThe Serpent and the Rainbow, though told from a white perspective, manages to avoid such pitfalls.
Craven, for his part, luckily doesnt depict voodoo as a spooky entity.
Instead, he takes care to explicate the actual religious and social power it holds in Haiti.
Sweetheart(2019)
A mysterious creature feature, J.D.
DillardsSweetheartrecalibratesthe horror-fable subgenre into a character study.
The heroine, Jenn (Kiersey Clemons), washes ashore on a deserted island after her boat sinks.
He understands that whats scariest is what hides in the shadows.
She upends horror expectations by rising from the narrative wings to the heroic rafters.
And the kills men squashed like Play-Doh, stop-motion monsters, and syringes deployed like missiles remain nightmare inducing.
