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100

I'm an African Prince who got bitten by Dracula in Transylvania.

What is Blacula?

100

A creepy mortician attempts to scare teenage drug dealer and his friends straight by telling them four horrifying stories.

What is Tales From the Hood?

100

Reunited on their 21st birthday, twin sisters use their magic powers to save their kingdom from the forces of darkness.

What is Twitches?

100
  • A sub genre  of exploitation films that emerged in the United States in the 1970s
  • Were made to appeal to Black audiences and featured Black actors

What is Blaxploitation?

200

 A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs, but his assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a lumbering monster.

What is Blackenstein?

200

A murderous soul with a hook for a hand is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

What is Candyman?

200

A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.

What is Haunted Mansion?

200

Explores the boundaries between reality and the supernatural, morality, and the past/present

What is Gothic Studies?

300

When a white racist wakes up a head transplant, he learns that his head has been transplanted onto the body of a black convict.

What is The Thing With Two Heads?

300

A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.

What is Blade?

300

A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

What is Get Out?

300
  • Combines African American history and struggles with traditional Gothic elements and tropes
  • A space where Black creators can share their experiences and control of how their history is depicted

What is Black Gothic?

400

A doctor (Bernie Casey) in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer.

What is Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde?

400

A Caribbean vampire seduces a Brooklyn police officer who has no idea that she is half-vampire.

What is Vampire in Brooklyn?

400

In order to get away from their busy lives, the family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California. At night, four strangers break into the childhood home. The family is shocked to find out that the intruders look like them.

What is Us?

400
  • Combines African American history and struggles with traditional Gothic elements and tropes
  • A space where Black creators can share their experiences and control of how their history is depicted

What is Gothic?

500

A marriage counselor becomes possessed by a demon of sexuality when her father-in-law, an archaeologist and an exorcist, accidentally frees it while in Africa.

What is Abby?

500

A 10-year-old black girl discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade. Her suave doctor father creates a rift of emotional turmoil.

What is Eve's Bayou?

500

One of several children immune to a mutated fungal disease that turned the rest of humanity into cannibalistic zombies, a gifted young girl escapes the safety of a special school and helps guide mankind's survival.

What is The Girl With All The Gifts?

500
  • Uses terror to explore the darkest reaches of the human condition (tension/suspense)
  • Meant to unsettle and disgust you

What is Horror?