racial roles in horror film
to begin, no im not racist.
put aside the monsters (djinn, thing) , lets just say those are green
now flip to the news. what do you see? "alert. woman at stop sign is help up by a black man. man then steals her van, with her 2 boys inside. the man is 6'2...."
so for what.. 1 week they were lookin around for a black guy, every black man was a target. then what do you find out? that she parked the van on a ramp at the lake, let down the emergency brake and let the car roll down, her children strapped to their seats. not a black guy anywhere
yes, this woman planned it. was she sane? hell no. but why would she say black guy? if she had said it was a white man, would it have had the same effect? obviously she wanted to bring in another person to take the focus off of her. and it worked. now law enforcement were more knowledgeable, since the exact sign she had been talking about happened to be where one of the cruisers was watching, but the REST of the society listened to her
ok so anyway. look at horror killers. freddy, jason, leather face, hannibal etc... from the top of my head the majority of them have been white. the only black one i can think of is candy man, and for some reason i think predator is black but ?
do you think they bring race into factor? freddy could have just as easily been a mexican, asian, black man. jason as well.
candy man im not so familiar with, and im pretty sure his story was based in slave times so ok it fit that he was black
go on GOOGLE and type in 'serial killer' and look at the names. many of them have pictures. what are they? white. there is 1 japanese guy, a 3-4 black guys, 3-4 mexicans.. but otherwise white. the typical serial killer is a white man.
if you were out, who would u be more weary of.. the gangster white boy? or the gangster black boy?
could go on more, but ill wait for more input!
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