Feb 07, 2019
83 min
Full-HD

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)

Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.

Category

Documentary Horror

Country

United States of America

Companies

Stage 3 Productions

Meosha Bean

Self

Ashlee Blackwell

Self

William Crain

Self

Rusty Cundieff

Self

Keith David

Self

Loretta Devine

Self

Ernest R. Dickerson

Self

Tananarive Due

Self

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