WEBVTT - Deep Cuts Horror Hit List #13 “The Blackening” 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:08.440 Hey there, folks. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:13.399 Sit is Sunday, October nineteenth. And of course, it is 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:18.920 widely understood that in any horror movie, the first person 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:19.720 to die. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.920 Is the black person. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:27.240 Yes, but what if a horror movie has an all 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:32.280 black cast, Well, can't kill us all And welcome to 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.080 this episode of Amy and DJ folks Weggo. Welcome as 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.839 we continue on our horror hit list, Number thirteen is. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:38.720 Near and dear. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.040 It is one of our absolute favorites, probably could be 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.800 higher on the list, but it's a newer entry and 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.360 this is the most fun you can have watching a 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:52.839 horror movie. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:58.720 It's almost so funny, and it makes so many culturer 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.920 cultural references that as a white person you might be 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.759 afraid to laugh at some of it. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.880 Or you might even know what the hell they's talking about. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:08.040 You know what. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.039 There might be moments where like, I don't get it. Ye, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.360 So I actually think if you have friends who are 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.600 black and you are white, and you were listening to this, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.600 please watch it in a mixed setting, like a mixed group, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.000 because you'll understand things in a different way. 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:24.280 It's funny no matter what. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.959 But I think it's even more funny if you have 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.120 people who understand it on different levels. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.160 Yeah, and folks, they lean in to the blackness and 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.000 this movie it's number thirteen on our list and it 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:39.080 is called The Blackening, And it was bro to part 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.679 of the posters they used when they were promoting this movie. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.000 The movie posters said we can't all die first. I mean, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.360 that's that really is the case. And it was a 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.400 great promotional campaign that played on something that in our 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.400 culture is kind of understood. Yes it's not all movies, 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.000 but it's kind of the thing. It's like a token 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.440 black guy in the group and he's the to go. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.360 And the joke also as the movie progresses is they're 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.640 trying to figure out who the blackest is among them, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.359 and the comedy that ensues trying to figure out the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.640 blackest of the group is hilarious streak. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.200 And everybody's then trying to show their what their their 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.080 non black credentials. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.440 But like, wait a minute, no, no, my dad is white. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:30.280 Somebody else. I voted for Trump twice. Yes, And that 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.200 might be the funniest scene. Actually, we got to put 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.480 this on again today. That's the funniest scene. But yet 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.359 it is The Blackening. It's pretty new movie. It was 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.120 in June of twenty twenty three. It's only an hour 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.600 and thirty seven minutes long. It is perfect, and it 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.800 is rated R. It's comedy and it's horror. This is 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.400 laugh out loud, not just a couple of here and 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.239 there like throughout this movie is funny. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.200 It's laugh out loud. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.280 But it's also very good at creating suspense drama. There 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.320 are there are there is there's more than one. Actually 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.080 I don't want to give it a but they are 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.720 being hunted. So there is actual horror movie elements. This 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.720 isn't just a comedy that has a little bit of horror. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.880 It really does toe the line between both really well, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.160 like exceptionally well. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.360 And I guess it to make the point, just the 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.520 concept of the movie tells you that it is a 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:21.600 horror and a comedy. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.880 Because what's a classic horror. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.760 Scenario being out in the middle of the woods in 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.400 a cabin. This is a cabin in the woods scenario. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.760 Now what's funny about that? Black folks ain't supposed to 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.640 be out there in a cabin in the woods. They 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.200 play on this idea in culture and yes, sweetheart, you 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.480 want to go hiking all the time? 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.400 I love cabins in the woods, and I. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.520 Say, why do you got why you got me out 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:44.240 here once again? 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.200 As you're driving through a dark, lonely wooded street, You're like, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.720 how is it that I'm here again in the middle 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.560 of the woods where black people aren't supposed to be. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.800 And you know what, every one of my friends, especially 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.200 my boys, what I tell them where I am, they 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.200 have no sympathy, Like what happens to you out there? 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.560 You deserve it, even so you're not supposed to be 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:04.880 out there. Oh my god, I had. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.080 You watching what was the movie on summer Midsummer? 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.480 I'm like, this is where we're going, babe, where there 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:11.920 are almost no black people. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.000 Yes, that's scary in and of itself. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.000 Sweden was nice, though I take Sweden over some parts 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.760 of the South. No, but this is and this is 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.800 a treat of a movie. Here the synopsis here. This 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.880 is a longer one, but explains it so you take 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:27.360 it all right. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.120 The Blackening Center is around a group of black friends 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.440 who reunite for a June teenth weekend getaway even funnier, 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.280 that's hilarious, only to find themselves trapped in a remote 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.400 cabin with a twisted killer forced to play by his rules. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:47.880 The friends soon realized this ain't no motherfucking game. Directed 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:52.320 by Tim's Story and co written by Tracy Oliver who 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.720 girls trip, Hello, who didn't love that movie? So you 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.760 can see their comedic barbershop Tim story did so. Yes, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:02.560 they have comedic backgrounds for sure. And Dwayne Perkins, the 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:07.120 Blackening skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question if 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.960 the entire cast if a horror movie is black, who 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:10.960 dies first. 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.800 It's just a great setup and a great so good concept. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.159 Now it did well at the box office. I can't 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.920 remember if it finished one or two, but it made 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.440 noise that weekend because look, seventeen point seven million dollars 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.560 doesn't sound like a huge haul. But this is a 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:28.200 small budgeted movie, a five million, very lean budget. Here 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.159 the cast is superb. Now Dwayne Perkins stars. Now, he 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.640 is the one who did a it was a comedy 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.760 sketch that this whole thing is based on that was 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.120 back in twenty fifteen, twenty seventeen. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.039 And it get it's an improv thing, right. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.440 Yes, And he went from there and became this so 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.359 kudos to him, and he is hilarious. Has even a 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.960 funny dancing scene in this movie. It's great Grace Buyers, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:58.600 Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, you'll recognize Antoinette Robertson, J Farrell 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.280 of SNL fame Kuah Wall we love him, of course. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.120 And then Yvonne Orgi what was the name of her 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.440 show on HBO, but you know her comedian, She's awesome. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.599 But the director as well, Tim's story, you know his 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.400 movies Think like a Man, Right along with Right Along too, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.000 as well with ice Cube and Kevin Hart. He's this 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.240 is his lane. It's this thing. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:24.120 The acting is superb, the writing is remarkable. You will 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.880 be laughing out loud throughout the entire entire movie. How 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.160 many times have we watched this? 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.239 It gets better every time, it really really does. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.640 We even watched this with my parents the other weekend. 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.520 That was a good night. That was a fun night. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.479 They were laughing out loud. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.039 Any of y'all have ever seen this movie, especially black 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.760 folks right now, If you're thinking, wow, TJ. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:49.960 Watching this with three white people. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.120 Well in two of them being your parents. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.680 Really white people. Yeah, there were some scenes in there, but. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.839 It's just it's it's stuff, and for me, it's nothing 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.760 we talk like this, this is all familiar, and yet 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.880 this is very black movie. It leans into that. But 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:04.880 to watch this that was. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.839 Funny, and your folks were cracking the hell out with 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:07.200 this one. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.920 My dad was literally laughing out loud this movie, laughing 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:14.160 out loud. Rotten Tomatoes agrees their score eighty seven percent, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.680 and the audience agreed eighty five percent. So, I mean, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.520 this was a movie that was well reviewed and well 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.920 liked by pretty much everyone who has seen it. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.400 All right, critic consensus, Now, I haven't seen an audience 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.760 consensus consensus. They had one on this one, so I 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.680 included them both. So from the critics, the critic consensus 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.920 was this, while it could stand to be a little 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.600 funnier and quite a bit scarier, the Blackening is a 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:45.600 thoughtful satire that skewers horror tropes and racial stereotypes. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.280 All Right, I thought it was pretty damn funny. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.360 It's hard, I mean, a little funny. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.720 It could have been a little scarier, maybe, but I 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.360 thought it was really funny. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.720 It seemed like somebody might have been nitpicking. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.480 Yes, perhaps they wanted to find something about it. The 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.200 audience consensus, I feel like, is a really good way 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.280 to view this movie. The Blackening is a laugh out 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.920 loud horror comedy that's perfect for watching with a big 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:10.800 group of friends. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.400 Yeah, that needs to be done. You have to get 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.840 a group together because you're all going to be arguing 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.120 about what you would do and which one of the 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.960 group is in your group, or which character are you 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:22.160 and that. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:22.600 Kind of thing. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.200 Yeah, and for white folks, like I said, if you 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:25.760 don't get the joke, if you have a lot of 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.360 people there, someone will explain it to you. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.360 There's not a lot of you know what, there's a 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.720 little bit of that. There's a there's a kool Aid scene. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.640 Maybe might be confusing to some folks. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.079 Oh yes, I wouldn't have gotten that. I would not 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.360 have understood understood the kol Aid reference. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.960 Well, okay, there's a lot of stuff in there. But 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.640 the audience reviews came in this way that Blackening was hilarious. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.560 It's rare to have a comedy that has so many 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.840 fresh and upcoming faces where the ensemble is kinetic, hilarious, engaging, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.000 and so talented. Even as a remake from a short skit, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.520 this is one of the funnier self aware comedies this year. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:05.880 That's I like. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:07.160 That self aware comedies. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.480 It's true, like they go ahead and they go there 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.040 and they know what they are, and I appreciate. Like 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.720 the whole Friends thing had me laughing out loud. Oh, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.040 that was one of my favorite parts of the movie, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.800 because you know, black people didn't never watch Friends. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.000 See it's a black That was such a black moment 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.760 that we've all had. It was amazing to where you 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.240 were not supposed to be a part of that thing 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.439 from white culture. But then you have to admit, like, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:35.760 wait a minute, y'all watch that show. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.600 So all right, The Blackening is a slasher movie that's 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.880 also a slap dash, enjoyable social satire. That the satire 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.640 turns out to be sharper than the scares isn't a problem. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.720 It's all part of the film's slovenly demonic party atmosphere. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.240 Yeah, I agree with that the way to put it 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.640 might be funnier than it is scary, and that's okay. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.600 I think I think that's a true state. But it's 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:01.480 still a horror. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:01.800 Movie, all right. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.439 Let me go to a couple of the negative ones 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:09.920 down here. Robes sporadically funny but mostly repetitive, choppily edited 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.000 and dull without being zany, hilarious, campy, or bold enough. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:20.360 It's like Boo a Medea Halloween without Medea to invigorate it. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.000 Oh, I couldn't disagree more. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.319 Okay, there was some I took issue with us when 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.240 I included it for a reason that seemed. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.640 A little so much unnecessary. Also, Medea would not have 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:30.800 made it funnier at all. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:31.760 This seems a little now. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:33.559 Maybe they just didn't get it. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:35.320 They didn't get it. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:36.719 I wonder who wrote it. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.240 Well, some of them have their pictures next to it, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.560 and I think that might be a challenge maybe for 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.160 a critic. I think it might be a challenge to 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.000 watch a movie like this that is actually not made 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.800 for you as not trying to pander to you to 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.280 where you do have to try to understand another culture. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.360 You do try to understand a joke and if you 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.720 don't get it. So I did read a lot of 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.760 reviews that seem from people they didn't get it. They 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.319 didn't say they didn't get it. Instead it came out 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.600 as negativity towards the. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.160 Movie because they didn't know they didn't get it. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.560 That's kind of a problem, right, I mean, isn't that 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.800 a lot. We talk about this all the time. You 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.360 and I say similar ages, similar parts of the country, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.720 but just so many different references that we're surprised and 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:21.840 actually like like shocked that we don't understand references. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.320 So I do think it's. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.480 Kind of an opportunity actually to have fun and learn 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.760 a little along the way. Here's a negative one as well. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.000 This movie not only fails at both horror and comedy 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.040 what but it also panders to the black community so 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.040 hard that it's hard to watch. Literally, the N word 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.640 is said probably nine and ninety nine times, and almost 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:51.040 all of the jokes relate to blackness. It's called the Blackening. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.280 I don't know what they thought they were watching. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.040 I thought that's. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.360 I don't know, Maybe you don't have to watch it, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.120 right if you don't want to. But I I never 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:10.560 walked out of a theater because the joke was one 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.040 that I didn't think was written for my community. Right, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.839 you're looking at you actually don't like it because it's 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.440 specific to somebody that's not you, and you have no 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.760 interest in trying to be open to it. It's weird 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:29.160 how a simple movie review like that tells us so much, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.000 Like what are you talking. It's not funny because it's black. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.320 It's not funny because somebody that doesn't look like me 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.800 might have found it funny. It's just some of them 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.600 a little hoigh. I included that one on purpose. Who 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.839 knows what was going on here, It's possible, like I 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.920 didn't think it was funny, and I didn't think the 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:46.880 horror was an Again, this was my problem with it 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:47.400 because this is. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:48.280 This, Eh. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.040 Look, I recognize that I got some of the jokes 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.400 because I'm in a relationship with you. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:55.240 I get that. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:00.440 But I still think even never having known things on 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.880 another level, I still would recognize how funny it was. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.080 I mean, I just totally take issue with that. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.560 But I do think it's a point to consider that, yes, people, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.600 sometimes art is made for different or in the lens 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.679 or through the lens of different cultures, and that's actually 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.560 a really cool thing to be able to witness, watch 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.200 and learn from and enjoy. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.560 It doesn't have to be about white people for white people. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.959 I do think that's so interesting that even the writer 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:31.079 of that review couldn't recognize their own limitations that they put. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.520 On themselves, right, That's that's my criticism. The jokes are 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:35.280 too black for me. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.200 All right, So we're gonna we're gonna come back and 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.320 tell you why it made our list, who it's for, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.240 who it's not for, anyone who just wants white things, 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.560 and what you can pair it with. We'll also tee 0:13:48.600 --> 0:14:01.160 the head to our next movie on our list. We 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.760 continue our horror hit list with number thirteen on our list. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.840 We are talking about one of our favorites, laugh out loud, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.280 funny horror comedy, The Blackening. It came out in twenty 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.040 twenty three. We have probably watched it at least ten 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.720 times since then, and most recently just a week ago, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.760 and going to watch it today too. We might watch 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.120 it again today. That's how funny it is. It is 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.000 just enjoyable from start to finish. So why it made 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.760 our list. It's rare that you can. I look, there 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.480 are horror comedies and they can make you chuckle or 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.400 make you smile in the middle of just extreme fear, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.800 and I appreciate those, but it's very rare that a 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.600 horror movie actually has you laughing out loud, and that 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.960 for me, this is singular in that ability to do that. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.400 Yeah, and it's still I mean, this still legitimately is 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.480 a horror movie, but no, it's not the scariest thing 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.200 you're going to watch. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:14:59.120 But it. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.000 You don't get shorted on deaths and murder and mystery 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.000 and fear and tension. You don't get shortered on that 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.760 in the least bit. But it's so funny throughout, and 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.479 so many of the performances, even when they're not delivering 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:20.840 lines or jokes, they're just in their personalities so engaging 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.640 and even adorable to a certain degree. And sing and 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.600 the brother the plays the guy who's married to the 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:28.080 white woman. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:29.360 That's hilarious. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.240 He has one of the best lines in there. When 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.680 you were talking earlier, some jokes you might not get 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.560 where they're all sitting around trying to figure out who 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:42.120 is the blackest. His argument was I'm not the blackest. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.520 I'm married to a white woman. And everybody said, no, brother, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.280 that does not help your case. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:49.840 And I don't think I. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.200 Would have gotten that joke, and they just moved on. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.240 They didn't explain it in the movie. Everybody got it 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.720 and it was hilarious. That kind of stuff in this 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.160 movie is why you have. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.080 To watch this with a group, yes, agreed group, biggest 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:04.840 group you can get. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.400 So who's the movie for TJ Black people. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:13.120 Absolutely, this is for black folks, and I appreciate it 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.120 being that way, and I think it's for anybody who 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.840 wants just a little window, if you want a little 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:26.440 insight into black friendship actually and to black problem solving, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.440 into really black culture in how we view other parts 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:35.000 of culture, including the O'Reilly theme song even has a 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.360 hilarious moment in here. It just I think a lot 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.960 of folks don't get to see good, college educated, successful, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:47.560 normal black folks just doing their thing friends, right, Everybody 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.560 got to see that this is friends in the middle 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.560 of a horror movie, and I encourage anybody to take 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.080 a minute to watch just the normal sea of this group. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.120 It just happens to be black. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.000 That's so true. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.560 I even loved at the end, like just something as 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.800 funny and yet telling about them trying to figure out 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.520 how to get help because obviously they couldn't call the police. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.840 That's a good jokes and there was nothing. They weren't 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.480 laughing and it was just dead pain. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:18.840 It was just like what do we do? 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:20.240 It was a call. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:26.160 Yes, it's a real issue that folks have had, real 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.720 folks in the community scared to call. They don't think 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.720 we burned the place down. They don't think we stole it. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:35.119 I've absolutely had that moment in my life before. I 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.480 shouldn't be here. They don't think it was me. 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:38.040 Yeah. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.760 And then so TJ. Who is this movie not for? 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.040 Oh, if you're racist, this thing for you, if you 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.280 got any racist tendencies, and the least bit this is 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.200 not for you. If you've been texting with young Republicans 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.600 over the past seven months, this is not your movie. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.639 That's just a joke, y'all. Don't come for me. If 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.120 you've been watching the news, you know what that joke 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.240 was about. I'm just kidding. But my point is not 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.720 open to go to looking and seeing something that maybe 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.200 you're you don't know. You need to be a little 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:13.000 open minded. I think to other people, other cultural cultures 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.920 and the way somebody else might do something. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:16.399 I think this is a great movie to do that. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.040 You know, our movie before was a Japanese film, and 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.560 we kind of talked about it's not the same thing, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.280 but there are some similar aspects where you're acknowledging, Hey, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.719 I don't totally get this, but I'm guessing this is 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.440 a Japanese thing. And then you kind of become more 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.359 aware of those types of instruction. It's a part, yes, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:40.560 and even though it's not familiar, you can actually appreciate. 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.320 So I think this movie is actually really cool in 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.480 that regard, and I loved it all right. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.720 Food drink pairing. What would you suggest, Babe? 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.840 I usually don't recommend kool aid, but there's a part 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.119 of this movie that really takes you back, So I 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.320 would recommend because of kool aid laying around, you know, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.080 I go a little old school, go ahead and get 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.200 a little sugar in you for the night. This one 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.040 takes you back. Food pairing. This made me feel even 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:09.639 though it wasn't a big part of the movie. Food 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:14.080 wasn't It very much felt like a cookout kind of atmosphere. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.080 So if you get a chance to grill some stuff up, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.280 throw it all in the middle of the table, even 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.080 hot dogs and stuff like that would work. 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:21.800 It feels like a cookout. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.119 Yeah, that actually that's and we were talking about it. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.280 There wasn't any food in this movie, which actually is unusual. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.479 Usually you like have a there's a dinner, there's especially 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.840 when you've got people in a cabin together. I don't 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.119 think they had time to cook like stuff started going 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.640 bad really quickly, and I think you know they had 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.560 some fun. They were shots, they were doing shots, so 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.360 maybe you could put some shots to that too. 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.720 There was some molly involved, but we don't want to record. 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.720 We don't want to recommend any sort of illegal substance, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.600 but there was definitely molly going on. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.200 In one of the funniest scenes as well. 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.960 It was hilarious. But I think you can probably put 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.440 anything with this. Anything you want to eat to have fun. 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:00.920