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“The Blackening” is a slasher movie that is also a funny, botched social satire. That the satire turns out to be sharper than the scares isn't a problem, it's all part of the sloppy, demonic party atmosphere of the film. The staging, which feels like a sequel to "Friday the 13th" via "Bodies Bodies Bodies," brings together nine old college friends to celebrate the weekend of June 19th in a big, spacious house they've rented. near the forest. As Tina Turner's version of "I Can't Stand the Rain" spins on the record player, the first two to arrive, Morgan (Yvonne Orji) and Shawn (Jay Pharaoh), head to the basement game room, which It has shelves of old board games, an old TV, a Ouija board, and a featured game called The Blackening. Removing the lid of the box, they discover, to their horror, that there is a plastic Sambo head in the middle of the board, asking questions like "Who is the first black character to survive a horror movie...