Erin ’s Reviews > The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar > Status Update

Snake Out of Compton (2018) = A hood send up that answers the question of what would happen if you blend House Party, Training Day, and Friday with Snakes on a Plane.

Racial Reckoning Horror = a subgenre in which racist characters get what they deserve

Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) A Black mother's quest for justice when her son is murdered by a gang of neo Nazi surfers.

The vulgarized form of voodoo in Horror movies has little to do with respected faiths such as Vodun, Santeria, Candomble or other African diaspora religions.

"The people who responded most to the Purge films are African American audiences and the Latino audience."

The Magical Negro invariably helps even at the risk of their own life. Magical Negroes are nice but kind of dumb.

In 2019 only 5.5% of directors and 5.6% of writers of theatrical releases were Black.

The "Sacrificial Negro" grew out of filmmakers collective white guilt about their racially skewed cinematic genocide and to add some dignity to Black death.

An informal survey of almost one thousand horror movies containing more than fifteen hundred appearances of Black characters found a mortality rate of 45%.