"I've always loved horror," The Blackening's Tracy Oliver tells GamesRadar+. "My dad showed me The Exorcist when I was a child, I don't know why but he did. It was traumatic – thank you, dad – but it was my first introduction to it and ever since then, I've loved all types of horror."
It's hardly surprising that the new horror comedy, from Barbershop director Tim Story, was penned by a genre fan. It quite literally stems from a well-known slasher trope; Black characters are usually the first to die. But what happens when all of your characters are Black? In an attempt to answer that, Harlem creator and Girls Trip writer Oliver teamed up with Dewayne Perkins to expand his viral Comedy Central sketch – which sees a bunch of people try to measure their Blackness, and determine their right to live or die accordingly – into a feature-length film.
