Review of Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019) by Imthenoob — 18 Jun 2019

What frustrates me the most about this documentary is that there were times that they tried to make something about race when it wasn't. For example, They tried to say that King Kong was really a film about race, How black men lust after white women because Kong was black and the lead female actress was white. That is totally and utterly wrong since the creator was simply obsessed with gorillas and had been since childhood. The creator thought it was a good idea to make a film about a giant gorilla and turns out it was a pretty good idea lol.

It was stuff like that that really took me out of the documentary and I certainly didn't like how little screentime a film like Night of the Living Dead got when it was such a culturally significant film. And considering that this film is about the growing role of black people in horror films, You would figure it would have had a more prominent role in the documentary but it didn't.