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My choices for the best horror movies of 2025 featuring Black performers are a bit more top-heavy than last year’s, but there’s still a remarkable number of films worth recommending. If, like me, you’re of a certain age, you have to marvel at the fact that there are actually 30 Black horror movies in one […] The post Best Black Horror Movies of 2025 appeared first on Black Horror Movies .
2024 had its share of disappointments in Black horror cinema, but it had so many entertaining entries that it could afford the misfires. There’s perhaps nothing more reflective of the growth of Black horror over the years than the fact that it is now allowed room to fail. The mere fact that I could compile […] The post Best Black Horror Movies of 2024 appeared first on Black Horror Movies .
How Much Have Black Horror Roles Increased? Tracking the number of modern horror movies per year with significant* Black roles. For details on specific movies, 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 .
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…
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 .
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 .
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…
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 .
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 .
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…