![]() It’s on the nose, but this parody has about as much subtext as “Scary Movie” and that’s part of the fun. Friendships are tested, bodies hit the floor, and plenty of laughs are had with a cast that includes Perkins as well as Yvonne Orji (“Insecure”), Antoinette Robertson (TV series “Dear White People”), Sinqua Walls (“Nanny”), and Jermaine Fowler (“Tuca & Bertie”).Įvery slasher movie needs a good villain and here the killer wears a blackface leather mask. When the group discovers the board game and realizes a masked killer has kidnapped one of their own, they must win the game and save their lives - or, someone will become the token black person to die first. All that within the first few minutes, plus a Texas Chainsaw Massacre namedrop, so we care about their dynamic before the blood starts pouring. Between the stoner, the gay man, the jock, his girlfriend, and the nerd, we get to know the fights that created rifts, the joys that kept them together, and the embarrassing stories they like to tell. ![]() Written by Dewayne Perkins (who wrote the original short) and Tracy Oliver (“Girls Trip”), the script does a great job of selling the the relationships between the would-be slasher-victim archetypes on a getaway trip to celebrate Juneteenth as well as their 10-year college reunion. ![]() Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]()
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