{"id":127788,"date":"2023-03-06T08:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T08:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=127788"},"modified":"2023-03-11T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T15:15:23","slug":"the-blackening-trailer-released-for-horror-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-blackening-trailer-released-for-horror-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blackening: Trailer released for horror comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta horror comedy <em><strong>The Blackening<\/strong><\/em> is out this Juneteenth weekend and is said to \u2018skewer genre tropes and pose the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The first trailer has now been released and you can check it out here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOuvYKd9slQ\" width=\"375\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Blackening<\/strong><\/em> centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain\u2019t no motherf****** game.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_127791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127791\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-127791 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-blackening-BLACKENING_Unit_211026_00336RC2_rgb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-blackening-BLACKENING_Unit_211026_00336RC2_rgb.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-blackening-BLACKENING_Unit_211026_00336RC2_rgb-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-blackening-BLACKENING_Unit_211026_00336RC2_rgb-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-blackening-BLACKENING_Unit_211026_00336RC2_rgb-616x370.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Black friends find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer in<em><strong> The Blackening<\/strong><\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Directed by Tim Story (<em><strong>Ride Along<\/strong><\/em>) and screenplay and screen story by Tracy Oliver (<em><strong>Girls Trip<\/strong><\/em>) and Dewayne Perkins (<em><strong>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/strong><\/em>), the movie stars Antoinette Robertson (<em><strong>Dear White People<\/strong><\/em>), Dewayne Perkins (<em><strong>The Upshaws<\/strong><\/em>), Sinqua Walls (<em><strong>Nanny<\/strong><\/em>), Grace Byers (<em><strong>Empire<\/strong><\/em>), X Mayo (<em><strong>The Farewell<\/strong><\/em>), Melvin Gregg (<em><strong>Snowfall<\/strong><\/em>), Jermaine Fowler (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/sorry-to-bother-you-director-boots-riley-trust-me-its-sci-fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Sorry to Bother You<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), Yvonne Orji (<em><strong>Insecure<\/strong><\/em>), and Jay Pharoah (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/the-mitchells-vs-the-machines-quirky-comedy-with-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Mitchells vs the Machines<\/strong><\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Blackening will be released in cinemas on 16 June. Watch more trailers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzZiC_sZdNZsdP4Rskmoudg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SciFiNow YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring a remote cabin in the woods is never going to turn out great! Check out the first trailer for The Blackening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":127790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[7605],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Blackening-Poster.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127792,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127788\/revisions\/127792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}