Horror Tag

As a horror fan herself, Courtney Taylor knows all too well the tropes that include Black people in scary movie situations. But together with her role in Sony Pictures’ recent gothic horror thriller, The Invitation, she’s helping change that narrative. “Stereotypically, the Black person dies at first,” Taylor laughed. “[This time] we get the possibility to see us fight.” As The Invitation opened primary on the U.S. box office this past weekend, thousands and thousands of moviegoers got the possibility to see not one, but two Black women get their probability to tough it out through the film’s runtime. Article continues after video. The film follows Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel), a recently orphaned artist with no other immediate family. After a DNA...