The Blackening Showtimes Near Danville Stadium Cinemas (2024)

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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.

Horror purists might find the picture lacking in genuine scares, but go into it expecting a hang-out comedy with a few jumps rather than a horror movie with a few jokes, and it's unlikely to disappoint. Content collapsed.

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.

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

With that, the movie's final act reveals that Clifton orchestrated the whole thing, desperate to make the others pay for "revoking his Black card" after he fluffed up a game of Spades 10 years prior.

"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.

How graphic is The Blackening? ›

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.

Type of Villain

Clifton is the main antagonist in the 2023 horror/comedy The Blackening. He portrays himself as a nerdy, innocent man, but in truth, he is a vengeful manipulator.

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.

After his baseball team loses a game due to a call by umpire Ray Cook (Nick Nolte), Dave Tibbel (Trevor Morgan) and some friends decide to vandalize Ray's house. Dave is caught and starts paying off his debt by cleaning up the mess. Then Ray unexpectedly offers to forgive the debt if the teen will accompany him to his 40th high-school reunion and pose as his son. A paternal bond forms between Ray, who is dying, and Dave, whose own father (Timothy Hutton) is emotionally distant.

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