Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing the horror comedy The Blackening on Digital on August 15, and on 4K UHD Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray and DVD on August 22, 2023. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along) and screenplay and screen story by Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip) and Dewayne Perkins (TV’s “The Amber Ruffin Show”), the film stars Grace Byers (TV’s “Empire”), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), Melvin Gregg (House Party), X Mayo (TV’s “American Auto”), Dewayne Perkins (TV’s “The Upshaws”), Antoinette Robertson (TV’s “Dear White People”), Sinqua Walls (TV’s “White Men Can’t Jump”), with Jay Pharoah (TV’s “Saturday Night Live”) and Yvonne Orji (TV’s “Insecure”). Get more details!
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Synopsis: The Blackening follows a group of Black friends reunited for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a masked killer who forces them to play a twisted board game by his rules, which they soon realize ain’t no motherf****** game. The Blackening skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: If the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
4K ULTRA HD/BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
- Audio Commentary with Director Tim Story and Writers Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins
- Do the Write Thing
- They Can’t All Talk First
- Shall We Play a Game?
- Cabin in the Woods
- “Who’s the Blackest?” Game Show
- Theatrical Trailer
- And more!
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