Whose Nightmares Are We Telling? How Horror Has Evolved for People of Color

Code Switch

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Host B.A. Parker talks to Jasmin Savoy Brown, of the recently-released Scream 6, about playing a queer Black girl who lives. And film critics Richard Newby and Mallory Yu discuss how horror movies can actually help us empathize with each other

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0:00.0	Hits up, this episode has language that might not be for everyone, so be mindful, there
0:06.3	will be some swearing.
0:08.5	You're listening to Code Switch, I'm BA Parker.
0:11.5	I'm a film nerd through and through, especially when it comes to horror films.
0:17.8	They're earnest in their goal, to scare.
0:20.9	It unites an audience with every bit of tension and every scream, but as a black woman, horror
0:28.1	films can be pretty hit or miss.
0:30.4	I mean, we tend to be the sidekick or the first to get killed, or in the case of Freddy
0:36.2	Krueger, we can get completely microaggressed.
0:39.0	In 2003's Freddy vs Jason, the last and the original My Marrow and Alme Street series,
0:45.4	of which I was a big fan, Freddy Krueger notices Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, and
0:51.4	just as she's about to get killed, he famously says, how sweet.
0:55.8	Dark needs dark meat.
0:57.8	No!
0:58.8	No!
0:59.8	Yes, Freddy Krueger is a serial killer that haunts teenagers dreams, but I drew the line
1:08.9	at racist.
1:09.9	I didn't like him anymore.
1:13.4	I don't go to horror films for realism, but some things can feel like too much.
1:22.9	Other horror franchise that I've long been a fan of is Scream.
1:28.8	We're currently over 25 years into the Scream universe.
1:32.3	I mean, I've literally grown up with these movies.
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