![]() ![]() ĭaniel Kaluuya in a scene from the movie "Get Out." (Universal Pictures) It’s an often funny, not especially academic survey, with stops for the horror parodies in “Key & Peele” and a litany of “ridiculous voodoo movie concepts,” but also an exhaustive taxonomy of Black character types in horror, a smart appreciation of “The Purge” franchise, a nod to 1970s cult favorite “Blacula,” a pocket history of Black actors and filmmakers in horror, a chapter on religion in Black horror. Harris - whose is itself a bottomless resource tracing the highs and lows of the Black experience in scary movies (including “Scary Movie”) - she wrote a new book with an ancient trope right in the title: “The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema, From Fodder to Oscar.” The cover illustration is a clever mashup that summarizes where Coleman and Harris are coming from: A Black Power fist explodes out of a cemetery lawn, “Carrie”-like. ![]() Coleman can rattle off those moments of good sense, and more decades of stereotyping, all day. ![]() “Nope,” she says, turning around, opting out.Įven decades ago, in that first season of “Saturday Night Live,” Richard Pryor’s parody of “The Exorcist” found him as a pastor deciding the only sensible way to reason with a devil was. ![]()
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