Black as Night 2021

Find your own way to slay.

5.5 / 10   122 vote(s)
Horror Thriller

A teenage girl with self-esteem issues finds confidence in the most unlikely way, by spending her summer battling vampires that prey on New Orleans' disenfranchised with the help of her best friend, the boy she's always pined for, and a peculiar rich girl.

Release Date 2021-10-01
Runtime 1h 27m
Directors Maritte Lee Go, Cybel Martin, Georgianna Whitley
Producers Jason Blum, Terra Abroms, John H. Brister, Lisa Bruce, Jeremy Gold, Maggie Malina, Adan Orozco, Guy Stodel, Paul B. Uddo, Marci Wiseman, Nate Smalley
Writer Sherman Payne

Yikes, where to start... A young girl (Asjha Cooper) is walking home one night when she encounters some New Orleans vampires feasting on a homeless man. Though attacked herself, she is rescued and then proceeds to show her best friend Fabrizio Guido and school heartthrob Mason Beauchamp her scars, sets about learning how to combat these creatures and soon the trio are formidable mini Van Helsings. If it is trying to draw an allusion with black poverty in New Orleans then it is woefully simplistic in it's approach. If it is trying to be a horror film, then it misses by a mile - indeed were it not for the fact that Beauchamp is quite handsome and Andrew Penrow really quite ridiculous then this film would have precisely nothing to recommend it to anyone. Why Blumhouse churned this dross out is anyone's guess, but it doesn't do anyone any favours on the creative side, nor for any kind of discerning audience.

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