Shudder's 'Horror Noire' traces the history of black films and filmmakers in the genre
by Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times
Mar 18, 2019
4 minutes
In 2018, Jordan Peele became the first black writer to win an original screenplay Oscar. The honor came for his debut feature "Get Out," a horror film exploring the latent menace lurking behind a seemingly well-meaning white liberal family.
"I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible," he said in his acceptance speech. "I thought it wasn't going to work. I thought no one would ever make this movie. But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it."
A day after Peele's win, Shudder, AMC Networks' horror and thriller streaming
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