How Much Have Black Horror Roles Increased? Tracking the number of modern horror movies per year with significant* Black roles. For additional details, refer to: 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s *Admittedly, “significant” is a subjective term that varies by era. The post Black Horror Movies Per Year: 1970-2023 appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

Cinema in 2023 boasted a slew of surprise hits and surprise flops, but one constant was the Black presence in horror. Not necessarily a year of earth-shattering accomplishments, 2023 was for Black horror more about consistency and variety, broadening the typical Black roles into period pieces, ghost stories, mad scientist tales, horror-comedies, and family-friendly fare. […] The post Best Black Horror Movies of 2023 appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

Stepping outside of the horror genre for a second, I wrote a guest post on Shepherd.com about my choices for the five best books about Black film history. If you’re looking to learn about the history of Black cinema, horror or otherwise, these books are a great place to start. Check out the article for […] The post Best Books About Black Film History appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

While Terror Train has a good reputation among horror fans, until the hectic climactic battle between “final girl” and killer, it’s mostly run-of-the-mill slasher fare that distinguishes itself by A) having Jamie Lee Curtis as the final girl and B) being set on a train. But there’s one other, less discussed aspect that sets Terror […] The post Terror Train (1980) appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

Not to be confused with Karyn Kusama’s 2015 “guess who’s culting to dinner” chiller The Invitation, the 2022 The Invitation—which plays more like an aborted Vampire Diaries spin-off—does share some similarities with Kusama’s superior film: both center around a black woman and a white man in an interracial relationship and…well, that’s about it. This time […] The post The Invitation (2022) appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

I’ve never really contemplated the existence of black, non-indigenous people in Australia, especially those who didn’t recently emigrate from Africa, but if Sissy is any indication, there are at least two of them. One is Aisha Dee, who stars as the titular Sissy — or Cecilia, as she is quick to point out — an […] The post Sissy (2022) appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

There was a time not too long ago that it would be difficult to create a “best of” list of horror movies featuring black leads in any given year, since there were so few of them, and the ones that did exist were of such dubious quality. But thankfully, things have changed in both quantity […] The post Best Black Horror Movies of 2022 appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

No, Bones and All isn’t a sequel to Bones in which Snoop Dogg teams with laundry detergent to “clean up” the streets© (all rights reserved), nor is it some sort of intricate, erection-centric orgy positioning. Rather, Bones and All is a romance about…cannibals. That’s right; those sexy vampires have hogged the romantic spotlight long enough. […] The post Bones and All (2022) appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

To address the bitch-ass elephant in the room: yes, this movie is called Bitch Ass. It’s a title that’s likely to cause some conflicted feelings because it comes off as juvenile and borderline offensive, but on the other hand, it serves its purpose by grabbing your attention and wedging itself inside your brain. The “bitch […] The post Bitch Ass (2022) appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more

The original Terror Train is generally considered a cornerstone of the Golden Age of slashers—and, along with Halloween, The Fog and Prom Night, is one-fourth of the quartet of films that turned Jamie Lee Curtis into a scream queen—so it’s surprising that it took until 2022 for it to receive the remake treatment, more than […] The post Terror Train (2022) appeared first on Black Horror Movies ..read more