A teenager shrugs at vampires while grandma gives hell to hipsters in the horror studio’s latest Amazon collaborations
The fast-growing gentrification horror subgenre that we can lay at the door of the first Candyman is picked up by the latest batch of Welcome to the Blumhouse films, the mini-studio’s collaboration with Amazon. Black As Night (★★★☆☆) crams as much of the subject as it can into a school backpack; its history assignment comes out pretty jumbled but this breezy YA vampire flick shrugs “whatever” and gets back to nailing the undead. “That was the summer I got breasts and fought vampires,” reminisces Shawna (Asjha Cooper), a New Orleans high-schooler who straddles both sides of the tracks. One side is middle-class Affluenceville, where she lives with her dad, hangs out with gay BFF Pedro (Fabrizio Guido) and swoons over perfectly coiffed hunk Chris (Mason Beauchamp). The other is Ombreaux Heights, the local housing project where her crackhead mum lives and where, one night, she’s jumped by a sawtooth-mouthed hobo whose preferred fix is heavy on the haemoglobin.
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