Kenesha Williams

Review: The Devil to Pay

They say not to judge a book by its cover, but when I saw the hand-painted movie poster for The Devil to Pay, I was all in. The Devil to Pay was written and directed by Lane Skye and Ruckus Skye. It stars Danielle Deadwyler as the main character Lemon, an actress who has recurring roles on The Haves and the Have Nots, Paradise Lost, and P-Valley, and who has a presence on-screen that makes me...

Kenesha Williams

Kenesha Williams

Review: Lovecraft Country/ S1,Ep 1/ Sundown

Review: Lovecraft Country/ S1,Ep 1/ Sundown

HBO's Lovecraft Country takes the Lovecraft Mythos and turns it on its head while illustrating that for a Black person in America, the scariest monsters are, in fact, racists. For those unfamiliar with Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft was a horror author and an unabashed...

Black Horror Out of the Margins

Black Horror Out of the Margins

We are currently at peak Black Horror, a genre that was once marginalized itself and that has also been fraught with poor representation of Black characters is now seeing its heyday. With the 2017 critical and financial success of the social horror movie Get Out and...

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