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Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

A Black Box Full of Bad Hair | Episode 6

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

Tv & Film

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There is no better way to wrap October then with two new horror films. Join us as we discuss Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.’s Black Box, and Justin Simien’s Bad Hair. Part I: Black Box Part II: Bad Hair Other References: https://shadowandact.com/amazon-black-box-film-jay-ellis-interview Book-Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890s to Present

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy, and

0:06.1

staying on the same page with Ben ASS. I'm one of your amazing co-hosts Amber

0:11.5

Wallen, and I'm Ben's ASS. And Ben's ASS, Ben, my lips is dry. I hope we can get

0:16.9

through this whole thing. But we're gonna round out spooky season today with two

0:21.0

movies. I was about to say incredible movies, but we we fill ways about one of

0:26.0

the movies. I know. Both of the movies that we're discussing today are directed

0:30.2

and starring black actors, writers, producers. So we just want to highlight that as

0:35.9

we round out spooky season. The first movie we'll be discussing is Black Box

0:40.3

directed by Immanuel O'Sake who for junior. The second movie that we'll be

0:44.8

discussing is Bad Hair directed by Justin Simeon. I do want to say right off the

0:50.3

top, there will be so so so many spoilers. We're recapping the whole movie,

0:54.3

dismembering all the ins and outs. We're dissecting if you will. I tried to do

0:59.4

something bloody. No, that would work. Why are you looking at me? I just just so

1:05.3

you know at home, Ben is rolling his eyes to looking at me. But yeah, we're just

1:09.1

gonna get all up in the guts and blood and goodness, glorious of both of these

1:14.2

movies. The first one that we'll be talking about is Black Box. If you haven't

1:18.4

seen Black Box, you can you can pause right now and access it on Amazon Prime.

1:21.7

But now we're gonna get into the spoilers. Since we're on the topic of

1:25.1

horror, we've been talking a lot about different kinds of horror representation

1:29.9

and Robin Coleman writes in horror noir of two different kinds of Black

1:35.5

horror. She talks about blacks in horror, which is simply having a story in which

1:42.1

Black people are a part of it, but not centering blackness and not having

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