If the Black character is often the first to die in horror films, as they do in “The Shining,” “Scream 2,” “Day of the Dead” and countless others, who dies first when the entire cast is Black?
This question serves as the premise for the 2018 video comedy sketch “The Blackening,” in which a group of friends find themselves trapped in a cabin deep in the woods as a deranged killer circles the property, ready to pick them off one by one. Their only hope of survival is to comply with the killer’s demand: “He’ll spare the rest of us if we give him the person that’s … the Blackest.”
