>The film interrogates the alleged stereotypical trope that the African-American character is often the first to die in horror movies by placing an all-Black group of friends at a cabin in the woods, where they are confronted with a masked killer who demands that they rank their degrees of blackness so that he can determine the correct order in which to kill them. In order to survive, the group must rely on a combination of street smarts and their own knowledge of horror film tropes.
I don’t really get this trope. What are some horror movies where the black character dies first? Seems pretty small in comparison to just about anyone else dying first
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Lets see.
Alien. Nope.
Aliens. Nope
Predator. Nope.
Night of the Living Dead. Nope.
Return of the Living Dead. Nope.
Dawn of the Dead. Nope.
Day of the Dead. Nope.
I'm bored now.
Birth of a Nation
>What are some horror movies where the black character dies first?
the shining and a bunch of shit from the 30s no one cares about
It's a fake, made up trope that literally never existed. It's just a lie to portray white American directors or writers as racist or something.
1930s movies rarely had black characters.
We see dead white girls and white ghosts before the black guy dies
>the Shining
The idea of the black guy dying first is to get them off screen because le evil whitey movie makers think nobody wants to see them, Scatman Crothers has tons of screen time and dialogue and is one of the most memorable characters from the movie
It might count by technicality but it doesn't really work
I think the bigger argument against is that The Shining isn't a slasher nor is it really a staple of 80s horror. I mean regardless only 3 people die in the film anyway.
>only 3 people die in the film anyway.
Literally only one person gets murdered. The other dies of exposure
>nor is it really a staple of 80s horror.
The frick are you talking about? It appears on pretty much every single "top X horror films of all time" list.
>The Shining isn't a slasher
True
>nor is it really a staple of 80s horror
Apart from this being a moronic comment, who said it had to have anything to do with 80s horror?
If anything, Dick's death in The Shining was more of a subversion of the "third party comes along to save the heroes after they get a message out" trope. The audience expects that with Dick's arrival everything will be OK but then he gets murdered like 10 seconds after stepping through the door.
Black characters barely existed in horror movies in the 30’s. You have no idea what you’re talking about
>1930's
>black characters in movies
huh?
Isn't the first one to die always a (white) couple having sex in their car?
It's usually a woman and a white woman at that.
It's just always been a crapshoot with slashers and horror movies in general since the cast of them are usually something like 75% whites, 1-2 black guys, 1-2 black females so of course theirs a good chance they're gonna die.
Hell Anthony Anderson has died in both the Scream series and I know what you did last summer series and Tony Todd has been the killer or gotten killed so many times its funny.
The big wow factor that probably catches people's attention is horror movies where the 1 black person survives like Deep Blue Sea
Deepess
Bluess
My head resembles a shark’s fin
>black guy dies first tv tropes page
>nine tenths of entries are 'subverted'
>trope doesn't happen
>"subverted/averted"
>trope does happen
>"played straight"
>a masked killer who demands that they rank their degrees of blackness so that he can determine the correct order in which to kill them
this sounds hilarious, is this real?
is that eddie murphy second from the right?
They can't a show a white guy killing a black guy on screen because of demoralization, so I wonder how this will play out. Maybe the killer is a self-hating Black person?
The Wayans brothers had this figured out years ago
>ninger
That's actually genius
>They can't a show a white guy killing a black guy on screen because of demoralization
Meds. Now.
I'm not even kidding. We don't need another redpissed incel shooting up a wal mart
It is not a trope. It's not a thing that commonly happens in horror movies. It's literally just gaslighting.
>In order to survive, the group must rely on a combination of street smarts and their own knowledge of horror film tropes.
Does this mean they will actually mention the movies in which the black people die first or just say it’s a fact when it’s rare as frick?
I know you already know, anon.
The trope should be black character always dies, which is usually the case as they are rarely the main characters, but they pretty much never die first.
>The trope should be black character always dies, which is usually the case as they are rarely the main characters, but they pretty much never die first.
This at least makes more sense. But even then… if it’s a horror movie where a bunch of people are being killed. No shit the black character is likely gonna die too
I can't even think of a handful of horror movies where the black character dies first
Any other examples of "tropes" that literally aren't tropes but they just get referenced enough that people falsely believe they are tropes?
It's not a real cliche, just a meme that gets parroted. The actual cliche is there's just one Token black character.
>Roland Kincaid in Elm Street 3 and 4
>Demon in Friday the 13th 5
>LL Cool J in H20
>Busta Rhymes in Halloween Resurrection
>Ice Cube in Anaconda
>Jada Pinkett in Scream 2
>as a matter of fact Regina Hall's character in The Scary Movies, which parodies the horror genres tropes.
I seriously don't know how this meme even started because Tokenism is already a pretty mainstram and well-known cliche. I can't even think of really famous black first deaths in horror.
>1 token black character
Nightmare 3/4, Friday 5, Halloween 8, and Scream 2 all had multiple black characters in them, so what the frick are you talking about.
>I seriously don't know how this meme even started
First I ever heard it mentioned was in the movie Canadian Bacon directed by Michael Moore.
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/10/black-characters-horror-movies
Survey of 50 movies, Black person died first in 5 of them. The whole premise of this flick is a lie.
Blacks dying first in 10% of all horror movies is a lot though
They're like 13% of the population, they're actually underrepresented in "horror characters who die first"
Whites are over represented but underkilled in horror movies
israelites aren't whites.
and their representation according to their self-reported death numbers are up for debate.
Literally a
>1/3 of homeless people are women
moment
???
Is this the most gaslighted troupe?
Either this or the "manic pixie dream girl," which has become shorthand for any female character who has any semblance of a personality and isn't a total prostitute
>Any woman that shows sympathy/empathy toward a male.
I hate that shit.
It discourses girls from being kind in real life.
That's had it's own term for decades though, and it keeps evolving, first it was worshipping dick, then it's hyping dick when zoomers find the term, but in order to be inclusive, they've settled on pick-me the last couple years
The "Pick Me!" Phenomenon is just a tactic to shame girls for putting in effort toward the man.
irl the most gaslighted trope is the myth of the innocent, unarmed black man being unjustifiably shot by police. Happens maybe once or twice a year.
It's just one of those lies that got told enough that it became a fact kind of thing.
>literally countless examples
>”lies”
The amount of imagined racism is out of control in modern society.
It used to be a thing in the like 80s
It hasn't been real since they started joking about it
It wasn't even a thing back then. Kincaid from dream warriors, black kid from demon house, spider from return of the living dead, who might not die first in the Friday the 13th he's also in.
Why would I even watch a movie that has black people in it?
>Jason Cleans Out the War City Ghetto.
Warsaw Ghetto.
You already know what tired jokes/references they'll use to prove how not black they are:
>I watch TikTok videos
>I like Taylor Swift
>I can't handle spicy food
>I voted for Trump
And on and on.
Evil can't create
>Killer puts full milk in the fridge in a lactose free carton.
>Black folk shit themselves to death.
Devious
That was in the trailer. The nerdy black guy says that he hasn't seen movies like Friday and then says that he voted Trump twice. Pretty sure they said the same thing about food as well, the movie seems like a parody of a parody of a parody. I can't tell who's israeliteing who anymore
You already spammed this at least twice now. Stop fricking advertising this movie. How much do you get paid per post for this? I assume you work in the social media or advertising department, right?
Woke status?
You're about to witness the strength of street knowledge.
Obviously third from the right dies first, as he's the darkest, and the one on the left survives because she isn't even black
Half of the examples on the tropes page either aren't black or are bullshit technicalities.
And the majority of what you posted aren't even horror films.
minorities are interchangeable
CHUD
>Morgan Freeman's character dies first
>at the end
What a fricking joke
it used to happen still into 2000s for sure
but it wasn't really a horror trope
movies like x men first class or mutant chronicles
The most vivid "black guy dies first" scene that comes to mind is Jurassic Park, but I don't know if I'd consider that a horror movie. Like, there are scenes that you fear for the protagonist's safety in the face of death, but it's more action / science fiction.
I like how there's no famous people, can't really tell who will be the final girl
i still blame barack h obama for all this race and troony shit
He was just another puppet on a string
Kino
The prankster dies first.
The bawd dies second.
Then whether the black dude dies is dependent on whether the movie has any black people to begin with.
In some movies they do, i think it's funny
They forgot the latino who betrays because he's a coward
>What are some horror movies where the black character dies first?
Jurassic Park
Dennis wasn't black.
> Dennis Nedry
> The bloodsucking lawyer
> Opening scene
>How would you feel if you died first?
>But I haven’t died first
>No but how would you feel
>I wouldn’t know because I’m still al-
>Okay, forget it. *starts firing*
Who will be the killer?
>A nerd loser
Who will survive?
>The girls (specially the fat and the nerd) and the guy in caquis (probably every man will be killed).
Will it at least be funny?
>Don't kid yourself.
I think the black guy was Freddy's first victim in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. The movie was already heavily into cheesy satire though
You're thinking of 4.
>a black person dies in a movie
>WHST DA FUK homie WHY DEYS ALWAYS BEEN KILLIN US IN ALLA MOOVEES
When was the last horror film in which the african american person of color died first?
Why do blackcels from USA constantly make themselves victims?
Black Africans get their heads cut open because people think they have gold inside their head and they are not complaining.
I honestly don't get where the trope came from, either. I've seen a lot of Horror movies and the black character rarely, if ever, dies first.
>black fragility: the movie