The Blackening Showtimes Near Evo Cinemas Creekside 14 (2024)

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What is The Blackening movie about? ›

Seven friends go away for the weekend, only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. They must pit their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies against the murderer to stay alive.

The Blackening / Film synopsis

Movies such as The Blackening might feel to some like fun and games. But this R-rated tale carries a content crossbow with it—and that's not a fun game at all.

1 hr 37 min. Children ages 6 and under are not allowed at R-rated movies after 6pm.

The Blackening, a comedy movie starring Antoinette Robertson, Sinqua Walls, and Dewayne Perkins is available to stream now. Watch it on DIRECTV, STARZ, The Roku Channel, ROW8, Fandango at Home, Prime Video or Apple TV on your Roku device.

It's more a standard genre flick viewed through a black culture lens and it's pretty solidly entertaining. It doesn't attempt any real scares (although there is some genuine tension) but while it isn't laugh out loud funny from start to finish there are more than enough laughs to keep things ticking along.

Overall: 12+ for violence/terror, some grisly images, pervasive language, drug material, and some sexual references.

The movie is based on a 2018 sketch that Perkins conceived of as part of the Chicago-based comedy troupe 3Peat. In “3Peat Presents: The Blackening,” a group of friends is forced to decide who among them is the Blackest after an on-the-loose killer is thrown off by the fact that they're all Black.

The R-rating doesn't ban children under 17 from a movie, it restricts them to watching it with a parent or guardian (and includes a recommendation that parents and guardians learn more before allowing their child to see the movie).

"The Blackening" was the other big release this weekend – a bit of counter-programming to the bigger branded releases with an original horror-comedy about a group of friends, who are Black, who get together for a weekend away and find themselves on the run from a killer. "The Blackening" made an estimated $6 million.

Parents need to know that The Blackening is a horror comedy about a group of Black friends who have to survive the night against a killer with a deadly board game about Black American culture. Expect violence (peril, killing, torture, blood), much of it racially motivated.

Who is the killer in The Blackening? ›

They are the Connor twins, Camden and Clive. Clifton hired the two rednecks to wear the masks and try and kill his former friends. He offered them only $100 per person they killed. The Connor twins being The Blackening's killers is subtly set up throughout the movie.

A woman's body is dumped in a well. The man is shot with an arrow and is kicked into a well. One of the masked killer gets his head bashed with a candlestick after getting beat up and shot. The bashing is mostly offscreen, but you can see blood splatter and blood on the candlestick.

The Blackening is a laugh-out-loud horror comedy that's perfect for watching with a big group of friends.

'The Blackening' Is Getting a Sequel—and Possibly Much More

The Blackening was a hit when it arrived in theaters on June 19th, 2023, and now there's a sequel on the horizon. According to Variety, MRC and Lionsgate have approached co-creators Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Oliver to develop The Blackening 2.

If you're looking for a good comedy, especially one that properly lampoons everything about horror films, then The Blackening is for you. Post-Credit Lowdown:There are some scenes right at the beginning of the credits, but nothing after.

The Blackening tells the story of friends reuniting over the Juneteenth weekend, the US holiday which celebrates the end of slavery. "Growing up there was always the one black person, the token black person that would get killed first," Story says.

They look through his pockets to see that he is the first killer's twin brother, and they deduce someone hired them to be there. The friends go into another room, where they find Ranger White's and Clifton's bodies, only for the latter to spring awake and reveal himself as the mastermind.

There are nods to plenty of horror films, and horror parodies like “Scary Movie” and its many sequels, but this film is so much smarter than those. It's inspired by films like “Saw,” “The Shining,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and others, which are subtly referenced rather than just reenacted for comic effect.