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Black Horror
Black horror (also known as racial horror and horror noir) is a Horror fiction, horror subgenre that focuses on African-American characters and narratives. This genre typically has Black creators who often use social and political commentary to explore themes of racism and other lived experiences of Black Americans along with common horror themes and tropes. Early entries in the genre include the Spencer Williams Jr. film ''Son of Ingagi'' (1940), and George A. Romero's film ''Night of the Living Dead'' ''(1968)'', which is considered one of the first Black horror films featuring Black actor Duane Jones as its lead. Blaxploitation horror films of the 1970s, namely ''Blacula'' (1972), and the vampire film ''Ganja & Hess'' (1973) became prominent examples of the genre in the 1970s. Other examples appeared during the 1990s, notably the 1992 Bernard Rose (director), Bernard Rose film ''Candyman (1992 film), Candyman'' and the 1995 anthology film ''Tales from the Hood'', which was direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. History Before 1000 The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore and religious traditions focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic, and the principle of the thing embodied in the person. These manifested in stories of beings such as demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. Some early European horror-fiction were the Ancient Greeks and Ancie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Out
''Get Out'' is a 2017 American psychological horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. It stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Lil Rel Howery, LaKeith Stanfield, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Catherine Keener and Betty Gabriel. The plot follows a young black man (Kaluuya), who uncovers shocking secrets when he meets the family of his white girlfriend (Williams). Principal photography began in February 2016 in Fairhope, Alabama, then moved to Barton Academy and the Ashland Place Historic District in Mobile, Alabama. The entire film was shot in 23 days. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on February 24, 2017, by Universal Pictures. The film received critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, acting, and social critiques. It was a major commercial success, grossing $255 million worldwide on a $4.5 millio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavia E
Octavia may refer to: People * Octavia (given name) Ancient Rome * Octavia the Elder (before 66 – after 29 BC), elder half sister of Octavia the Younger and Augustus/Octavian * Octavia the Younger (c.66–11 BC), sister of Augustus, younger half sister of Octavia the Elder and fourth wife of Mark Antony. * Claudia Octavia (AD 39–AD 62), daughter of Claudius and Valeria Messalina and first wife of Nero Post-Ancient Rome * Octavia (early 20th century), the name taken by Mabel Barltrop of the Panacea Society in 1918 * Octahvia (fl. 1980s), American vocalist * Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), African-American science fiction writer * Octavia Hall Smillie (1889–1970), American dietitian * Oktawia Kawęcka (born 1985), jazz musician, singer, flutist, composer, producer and actress * Octavia Spencer (born 1972), actress Culture * Octavia (play), ''Octavia'' (play), a tragedy mistakenly attributed to the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger that dramatises Claudia Octavia's death * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels – ''Brown Girl in the Ring (novel), Brown Girl in the Ring'' (1998), ''Midnight Robber'' (2000), ''The Salt Roads'' (2003), ''The New Moon's Arms'' (2007) – and short stories such as those in her collection ''Skin Folk'' (2001) often draw on History of the Caribbean, Caribbean history and Languages of the Caribbean, language, and its traditions of Oral tradition, oral and Caribbean literature, written storytelling. Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies: ''Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root, Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction'' and ''Mojo: Conjure Stories''. She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan of the 2004 anthology ''So Long Been Dreaming, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future'', and with Geoff Ryman co-edited ''Tesseracts 9''. Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel ''Whylah Falls'' on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antebellum (film)
''Antebellum'' is a 2020 American black horror thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. The film stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons and Gabourey Sidibe, and follows a 21st-century African-American woman who wakes to find herself mysteriously in a Southern slave plantation from which she must escape. ''Antebellum'' was released in the United States through premium video on demand on September 18, 2020, and theatrically in several other countries. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who criticized the depiction of on screen violence. Plot In a Louisiana slave plantation run by Confederate soldiers, slaves are treated harshly and not allowed to speak unless spoken to. Those who attempt to escape are killed and their bodies burned in a crematorium. After a failed escape attempt, a black man named Eli watches as his wife is murdered and her body is placed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Them (TV Series)
''Them'' is an American horror series, created by Little Marvin and executive produced by Lena Waithe. The series stars an ensemble cast, which consists of Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Alison Pill, and Ryan Kwanten in the first season, and Pam Grier, Luke James, Joshua J. Williams and Jeremy Bobb in the second season, with Ayorinde returning in a new lead role. The first season, entitled ''Them: Covenant'', had premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 9, 2021, and the second season, ''Them: The Scare'', premiered on April 25, 2024. The first season polarized critics and audience. Criticism was generally for the handling of the series' subject matter, which some called "exploitative" and "unnecessarily graphic", while Ayorinde and Thomas received praise for their performances. Plot Set in 1953, ''Them Covenant'' follows a black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in East Compton during the Second Great Migration. The family's initially idy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon MGM Studios
Amazon MGM Studios is an American film and television production and distribution company owned by Amazon, and headquartered at the Culver Studios complex in Culver City, California. Launched on November 16, 2010, it took its current name on October 4, 2023 after its merger with MGM Holdings, which Amazon had acquired the year prior. Productions from this company, as of September 2023, are primarily distributed through movie theaters under Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Amazon's own streaming media service, Amazon Prime Video. Alongside Amazon Prime Video, the company constitutes one half of Amazon's membership in the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which it joined on October 1, 2024. History Formation and early success (2010–2021) Scripts for television and films used to be submitted online to Amazon and read by staff; however, the website states they no longer accept submissions. Amazon aimed to review submitted scripts within 90 days (although the process may be longer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Age
The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the ''Works and Days'' of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages of Man, Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity ( ''chrýseon génos'') lived. After the end of the first age was the Silver age, Silver, then the Bronze Age (mythology), Bronze, after this the Greek Heroic Age, Heroic age, with the fifth and current age being Iron Age (mythology), Iron. By extension, "Golden Age" denotes a period of primordial peace, harmony, ecological stability, stability, and prosperity. During this age, peace and harmony prevailed in that people did not have to work to feed themselves for the earth provided food in abundance. They lived to a very old age with a youthful appearance, eventually dying peacefully, with spirits living on as "guardians". Plato in ''Cratylus (dialogue), Cratylus'' (397 e) recounts the golden race of humans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovecraft Country (TV Series)
''Lovecraft Country'' is an American black horror historical fantasy Drama (film and television), drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of Lovecraft Country (novel), the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO. The series is produced by Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. Television. The series is about a young black man who travels across the Racial segregation in the United States, segregated United States in the 1950s in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly based the location of many of his fictional tales. In 2021, while a second season, ''Lovecraft Country: Supremacy'', was in development, HBO cancelled the series. Premise ''Lovecraft Country'' follows "Atticus Freeman as he joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nia DaCosta
Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence when she made her feature-length debut as a writer and director with the crime thriller film ''Little Woods'' (2018), winning the Nora Ephron Prize for Female Filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Festival. After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series ''Top Boy'' in 2019, DaCosta became the first black female director to debut at No. 1 at the U.S. box office for the weekend opening of the horror film '' Candyman'' (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct a Marvel Comics film with ''The Marvels'' (2023), which, despite being a box-office disappointment, became the highest-grossing film directed by a black woman. Early life Nia DaCosta was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on November 8, 1989, and grew up in Harlem. Her Jamaican mother, Charmaine DaCosta, was a founding vocalist of the band Worl-A-Girl. Her original asp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candyman (2021 Film)
''Candyman'' is a 2021 supernatural horror film directed by Nia DaCosta, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. It is a direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name and the fourth film in the ''Candyman'' film series, based on the short story " The Forbidden" by English author Clive Barker and set between the films '' Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh'' (1995) and '' Candyman 3: Day of the Dead'' (1999). The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Colman Domingo. Vanessa Williams, Virginia Madsen, and Tony Todd reprise their roles from the original film. Plans for another ''Candyman'' film began in the early 2000s, with original director Bernard Rose wanting to make a prequel film about Candyman and Helen's love. However, the studio turned it down and the project entered development hell. By 2018, Peele signed on as producer for a new film using his company, Monkeypaw Productions and later, in November that s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nope (film)
''Nope'' (stylized in all caps) is a 2022 American neo-Western science fiction horror film written, directed, and produced by Jordan Peele, under his and Ian Cooper's Monkeypaw Productions banner. It stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse- wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object in Agua Dulce, California. Appearing in supporting roles are Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Keith David. Peele officially announced his third directorial film in November 2020. He cited '' King Kong'' (1933), ''Jurassic Park'' (1993), '' Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977), ''Jaws'' (1975), '' Signs'' (2002), and '' The Wizard of Oz'' (1939) as his main inspirations. Palmer and Kaluuya joined in February 2021. Yeun was cast the next month, and Peele revealed the title in July 2021. Filming began in June 2021 in northern Los Angeles County, and wrapped in November. ''Nope'' premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
