This movie is well entertaining for it to be a documentary movie, which I was kind of disappointed about, is not much of a fan. But as in the title, it tells about the history of black horror very well, including many actors talking about the history like Tony Todd, Jordan Peele, Rusty Cundieff, etc. I love how this movie talks about the pros of movies and then slightly the cons instead of just bashing them. They went back to when Hollywood started, expressing how the romance played off, with black men always going to white women. How that represents them, and why people took it that way. But also how some movies were secretly about blacks, like King Kong, Alien movies, Black Lagoon, and many more. But they keyly focused on "Night of The Living Dead" made in 1968, a black and white film. Talking about the zombie apocalypse and the surprise of an African American being the lead role and hero. Being made in the 60s, the time of black protests, being hosed, racism, etc., it is a statement but also a new beginning for black actors in Hollywood. Most movies were imaged by whites when making a black movie in the 1970s, with big collars and girls all around, and of course with great action but this created an image for others about "pimps" or how most whites thought that's how blacks were. They explain how these small movies showed such a big deal, like in the movie Black Dracula. A black man in court stands up for what he thinks is right. That's surprising being a film made in the 70s but not forgetting that the man's wife became the main character but not as a sex symbol or just a 'bad hottie' but as a hero and brave woman. And don't get me started on how in the 60s, a film had a black FEMALE scientist!! They got into so many points and examples of the different times of black horror in history and how over the years this movie that they didn't think much about actually had so many clues we did not know about. The most clued given, and true story based is 'Candyman' which they talked a lot about and it's interesting how so many parts of the movie represented true or semi-true events. I recommend this movie so much and It's one of my favorites, as you could tell by me almost writing a whole book. But I hope you enjoy it because for not such a big fan of documentary movies I loved this one.
