Title – The Blackening (2022)
Director – Tim Story (Fantastic Four)
Cast – Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo
Plot – A group of seven college friends reunite at a remote cabin for a quiet weekend of good company and good times but find their idyllic retreat interrupted by a mysterious murderer who is determined to cut through the group of friends one victim at a time.
“Preach it sister”
I remember the first time I had seen or heard anything about The Blackening was in a trailer played before a screening of John Wick Chapter 4 and in my clearly misguided mind I expected this social commentary/meta piece to be some type of modern day Scary Movie with a simple message but what we get here instead is a confused film that is neither a horror, a comedy or a well put together call to arms topical exercise, merely a film that excels in nothing while giving its audience a bore-inducing ride even at a mere 90 minute running time…