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Diedrich Bader’s character Ranger White is featured in a clip from the horror comedy The Blackening, coming to theatres this month
Lionsgate will be giving director Tim Story’s horror comedy The Blackening a theatrical release on June 16th – and with two weeks to go until that date arrives, a clip from the film has shown up online. This clip features Diedrich Bder, who played Ranger White in Office space and Jay and Silent Bob Strike back. You can watch it above. The film was inspired by a Perkins scripted 3Peat sketch that aired in 2018 on Comedy Central. It is about a group of Black friends going away for a weekend, only to be trapped in a cabin where a killer forces them to play a life-or death game. The idea asks a reasonable question: since it seems that Black characters are usually the earliest victims in horror films, what happens when all the characters are Black?
Perkins (The Upshaws) stars in the film alongside Antoinette Robertson (Dear White People
), Sinqua Walls (Shark Night), Grace Byers (Empire), X Mayo (The Farewell), Melvin Gregg (The Way Back), Jermaine Fowler (The Drop), Yvonne Orji (Insecure), Jay Pharoah (Unsane), James Preston Rogers (Pixels), and the aforementioned Diedrich Bader. I didn’t know Bader was in this movie until I saw the Ranger White clip, and it’s always nice to see him show up in something.Lionsgate’s Jason Constantine has said that The Blackening is “a wildly entertaining horror movie that delivers jump-out-of-your-seat scares while also hilariously subverting the genre.” Story and Oliver produced the film with Marcei A. Brown, Jason Clarke, E. Brian Dobbins and Sharla sumpter Bridgett. Perkins co-produced, and Vicky Story is associate producer.Story’s previous directing credits include
Barbershop, Taxi, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Hurricane Season, Think Like a Man, Ride Along, Think Like a Man Too, Ride Along 2, Shaft, and Tom & Jerry
.What did you think of the clip from The Blackening? Will you be watching this movie in the cinema later this month? Please let us know what you think by leaving a message below.
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