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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Seven black friends who go away for the weekend only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.

Cast

  • Antoinette Robertson
  • Dewayne Perkins
  • Sinqua Walls
  • Grace Byers
  • X Mayo
  • Melvin Gregg
  • Jermaine Fowler
  • Yvonne Orji
  • Jay Pharoah

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Verified Review
#greatcast
#hilarious

u know if u belong i.e. it aint for errr-body. some just won't get it....Happy Juneteeth !!!

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Sheila H
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#boring
#dumb
#notmyfave

I got free tickets and i need a refund

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Latrina P

Metacritic

75
Jun 14, 2023

The movie is highly entertaining, while being oddly validating and very funny. It cleverly weaves the horror tropes that it rebukes right into the narrative. And it’s done without slipping into parody like the Scary Movie series, where similar notions are skewered more broadly and, with The Blackening now on the table, way less successfully.

Metacritic review by Timothy Cogshell
Timothy Cogshell
The A.V. Club
75
Jun 14, 2023

More importantly, the film specifically examines Blackness through the lens of whiteness, making a white man the enemy and showing how an outside force wreaks havoc among the closed group. The film jokes about Black suffering, but this is far from trauma porn. It’s a truly Black horror comedy.

Rafael Motamayor
IndieWire