The Blackening w/ Tessa Claire Hersh
Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]
Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
James and Jonathan are joined again by Tessa to discuss The Blackening. The Blackening is a 2023 American horror comedy film directed by Tim Story and written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins. The film follows a group of seven Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no game.
The film explores themes of race, identity, and the role of Black people in horror films. It has been praised for its humor, its social commentary, and its performances from the cast, which includes Yvonne Orji, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, Grace Byers, Antoinette Robertson, Sinqua Walls, Jay Pharoah, and X Mayo.
Produced by Melisa D. Monts and Diamond MPrint Productions
Post Production Sound by Coco Llorens
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| 0:00.0 | I guess we should start, I say, do we think we survive a horror movie? |
| 0:11.8 | Oh, are you kidding? I'm gone. I'm gone immediately. |
| 0:15.4 | And not because of some stereotype, but because I would lose all faculties and I'd run into the knife somehow. |
| 0:25.6 | It's tough. I don't know what I survive a horror movie. I feel like I would know the rules, |
| 0:33.1 | but maybe I might be like Jamie Kennedy in scream where I like know it so much, but then like, |
| 0:42.2 | realize like, oh, wait a minute. You know, there's a person that is behind me as I'm screaming |
| 0:49.3 | to somebody else that they're behind that, you know, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | James, I think that you would totally survive and you would be the one that everybody would think |
| 0:58.9 | would die and they'd be like, oh no, it's almost, almost, but then you would keep on like |
| 1:04.0 | accidentally stumbling over, dropping something and hitting the killer's head and stuff like that. |
| 1:10.2 | Like, I feel like you would totally be like the like comedic survivor who like just like |
| 1:17.9 | accidentally like steps on the shovel that like hits the head of the, you know, whatever. |
| 1:24.4 | Yes. Okay, comedic luck on my side. |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah. And John, there's no way that you would ever you'd be like, this is not the way I'm gonna die. |
| 1:34.6 | I feel like you would like fight so hard with every part of yourself. Like, I just feel like there's |
| 1:40.8 | like a part of you that was just like, this is not my story. Like, I don't die in a horror movie. |
| 1:46.1 | Like, you can outsmart me and I feel like you would like savvy your way out of an outsmart |
| 1:52.1 | everything and you would be the planner. Now me, I know I would survive. There's no question about |
| 1:57.6 | it. I would, and I would also, I would help everyone else survive. I am a planner. I'm a good organizer |
| 2:05.9 | in emergencies. I'm fantastic at like organizing groups of people to do things and delegating and |
| 2:12.3 | making a plan and seeing what the group needs to do to survive. And I would definitely, definitely, |
| 2:18.2 | however, I don't have that like strong will to live that so many people have. So like, I would, |
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