Lionsgate shall be giving the horror comedy The Blackening, directed by Tim Story, a Premium VOD launch this Friday
Lionsgate gave director Tim Story’s horror comedy The Blackening a theatrical launch on June sixteenth – however in the event you didn’t catch the film on the large display or in the event you did and need to watch it once more within the consolation of your own home as quickly as attainable, we now have some excellent news. The Blackening is about to obtain a Premium VOD launch on July 7th. Sure, tomorrow!
Story directed The Blackening from a screenplay by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins. Impressed by a Perkins-scripted 3Peat comedy sketch that aired on Comedy Central in 2018, the movie is about a bunch of Black pals who go away for the weekend solely to seek out themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who forces them to play a sport with life-or-death penalties. The concept asks an inexpensive query: since it appears that evidently Black characters are often the earliest victims in horror movies, what occurs when all of the characters are Black?
Perkins (The Upshaws) stars within the movie alongside Antoinette Robertson (Expensive White Individuals), Sinqua Partitions (Shark Evening), Grace Byers (Empire), X Mayo (The Farewell), Melvin Gregg (The Means Again), Jermaine Fowler (The Drop), Yvonne Orji (Insecure), Jay Pharoah (Unsane), James Preston Rogers (Pixels), and Diedrich Bader (Workplace House).
Lionsgate’s Jason Constantine has mentioned that The Blackening is “a wildly entertaining horror film that delivers jump-out-of-your-seat scares whereas additionally hilariously subverting the style.” Story and Oliver produced the movie with Marcei A. Brown, Jason Clark, E. Brian Dobbins, and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett. Perkins co-produced, and Vicky Story is affiliate producer. Our personal Tyler Nichols gave the movie a 6/10 overview, and you may verify that out at THIS LINK.
Story’s earlier directing credit embody Barbershop, Taxi, Incredible 4, Incredible 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Hurricane Season, Assume Like a Man, Trip Alongside, Assume Like a Man Too, Trip Alongside 2, Shaft, and Tom & Jerry.
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I didn’t see the film within the theatre, however I’m occupied with watching it, so I’ll most likely accomplish that on VOD this weekend.