Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Moderate
- witty
- irreverent
- tense
- group movie night
- halloween viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film as a smart, genuinely funny horror parody whose strongest assets are its social commentary and the chemistry among its ensemble.
What sets it apart
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The friends’ survival situation turns stereotypes, cultural markers, and internal assumptions about blackness into the film’s central comic material.
The reunited friends must overcome personal baggage and coordinate their street smarts to survive the cabin’s killer.
The characters’ knowledge of horror movies informs their decisions while the film satirizes killer, cabin, and survival conventions.
A remote weekend getaway is transformed into a trap involving a killer, a board game, and a crossbow.
Films like The Blackening, and why
Scary Movie
horror parody, ensemble camaraderie, and irreverent genre satire
Get Out
socially conscious horror, racial commentary, and escalating group peril
The Cabin in the Woods
cabin slasher structure, dark humor, and self-aware genre conventions
Girls Trip
black ensemble comedy, sharp cultural observations, and relationship-driven humor
Movie Details
- Director
- Tim Story
- Release Date
- 2023-06-15
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 (441)
Cast
- Grace Byers
- Antoinette Robertson
- Jermaine Fowler
- Melvin Gregg
- Dewayne Perkins
- X Mayo
- Sinqua Walls
- Jay Pharoah
- Yvonne Orji
- Diedrich Bader
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Hulu
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Blackening about?
- A reunion of sharp-witted friends becomes a bloody, culturally pointed battle against a killer exploiting every slasher cliché.
- What is The Blackening like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Blackening as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Blackening violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in The Blackening as moderate.
- What did critics think of The Blackening?
- Critics broadly praised the film as a smart, genuinely funny horror parody whose strongest assets are its social commentary and the chemistry among its ensemble.
- Which films are like The Blackening?
- Films with a similar feel include Scary Movie, Get Out, The Cabin in the Woods, and Girls Trip.
- How long is The Blackening?
- The Blackening runs 97 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Blackening?
- In United States, The Blackening streams on Hulu.
