10 Smartest Black Characters In Horror Films
Just in time to kick off Halloween season, we highlighted 10 Black horror film characters that made it to the end by using their brains.
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Halloween season is officially upon us!
With the return of pumpkin lattes and horror movie marathons on nearly every broadcast network, the month of October has been a ghoulishly good time thus far. In terms of the latter, advancements in streaming services now allow viewers to plan their own watch parties by providing instant access to hundreds of classic slasher flicks and monster mayhem titles.
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Even though our people haven’t historically seen much luck when it comes to actually surviving in horror films, there have been a handful of examples that broke the mold and made cinematic history. However, there’s a select few out of the bunch that deserve special props for ultimately surviving by outsmarting the big bad.
Making it to the end of a horror flick based on brains instead of brawn, or by simply tagging close behind the Final Girl, requires quite a bit of prowess under literal life-threatening pressure. Whether it’s being the one who finds a way to kill the monster, using technology as an advantage, or by simply getting out of harm’s way before things really hit the fan, let’s just say some of the Black characters in these films are over the usual trope of being the “token Black person” that ends up dying first.
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In order to kick off your next scary movie marathon on the right foot, we highlighted 10 Black characters that will definitely make you proud based on how they ended up surviving to the end. Let us know if we missed a notable horror flick survival story by sounding off on our social handles:
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