7: The Blackening (2023)
Having just watched a slasher where, yes, The Black Guy Dies First, this followed as a recommendation, and remembering its tagline “They can’t all die first.”
A group of college friends reunite a decade later to celebrate Juneteenth, renting A Cabin In The Woods, and discover an absurdly creepy board game in one of the rooms. I do wonder what the killer’s plan was if they’d taken one look at it and left it alone.
Mostly naturally arising comedy as snarky people banter and deal with a scary-but-goofy situation badly, it also breaks that a few times including what seemed to be a throwaway stylistic trick but became a key plot point.
It looks at some serious points about racism and how people see themselves as well as each other, but keeps things mostly fun.
It got a few laughs, and a sympathetic wince at one point too.
The medium: Netflix
Gameability: Former friends stuck in a remote location with somebody messing with them through a game, yeah, that could work.
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