Fans of the horror genre have surely been eating well at the cinema this year, thanks to the releases of some quality flicks. The critically lauded M3GAN and the praised Evil Dead Rise are just a few of the scary titles to grace the silver screen this year. This week marks the debut of another feature, and it’s a creepy comedy called The Blackening. Unlike the previously mentioned movies, this one is looking to make audiences both laugh and shriek. Now, ahead of its opening, the reviews are finally in, so what are critics saying about it?
Horror and comedy can be tricky to balance and, ideally, you don’t want one to overpower the other. That’s the challenge that director Tim Story and co-writers Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins were faced with here. Of course, they also had to craft a story that made sense and featured believable characters. And based on a number of the reviews that have been released thus far, they mostly succeeded. CinemaBlend’s own Mike Reyes mostly enjoyed The Blackening. While he noted that it’s slow to start, Reyes noted that it hits the mark when it really starts to rev up:
