Everyone is strained by budgets and hear no all of the time. Mine those spaces and take the time and patience to look for those artists’ work. “When you’re on the internet go to Vimeo, go to YouTube. “It really is about your own personal mobilization,” Blackwell said. “Horror Noire” co-writer and producer Ashlee Blackwell at Scribe Video CenterĪs an independent creative with friends in different spaces throughout the film industry, Blackwell is forthright about professing the need for consumers to support emerging talents. That was the spiral about learning about Black representation in horror films.”
Robin Means Coleman’s book Horror Noire and also a friend of mine, she lives in Brooklyn, and her master thesis is about Black women in ‘70s-inspired cinema. Then it became race when I found about about Dr. “I started thinking mostly about gender and how that played out, because as a kid in the ‘80s I’ve seen a lot of women be heroes in these movies. “Those questions and ideas started when I was really young, mostly when I was a teenager,” she explained. Movie monsters like the Creature From the Black Lagoon were actually avatars designed to represent stereotypical ideas some people have held about Black people.įollowing a special screening of Horror Noire at West Philadelphia’s Scribe Video Center, Blackwell discussed her creative process, hopes for diversity in the film industry and more.īlackwell was first intrigued by the thought of analyzing the themes and ideas of horror films as a child. Horror Noire deftly handles an often ugly connection of Black depictions in film and institutionalized racism. Using archival footage from classic horror movies like Night of the Living Dead along with interviews with actors like Keith David (The Thing), Rachel True (The Craft), and Academy Award Winner Jordan Peele (Get Out), the film explores the unique aspects of horror noire, a sub-genre of film that can refer to films like Get Out.
From Black people notoriously being the first ones to die in horror movies to the social implications of Get Out, no difficult subject goes untold in this documentary. Based on the adaptation of Robin Means Coleman’s seminal book, HORROR NOIRE, the documentary examines the history of the complicated relationship that Black people have with horror films as a genre. It’s just that unfortunately, horror hasn’t always loved us.” That sobering quote is from the beginning of Ashlee Blackwell’s insightful documentary Horror Noire.
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