We need to talk about THEM (2021). You’ve probably seen promos during your standard stroll through streaming television, or maybe heard friends and family applause or pan the infant anthology series. First the premise: THEM (Amazon Prime) tells the story of one 1950s Black Family’s migration West to Compton, California to escape Jim Crow South,…
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Astro City (Black Horror Web Series) Ep 2. Act 1 & Act 2
TEASER ACT 1, SCENE 1 INT: RISE: AME CHURCH – DAY There is a funeral at RISE, and the service is packed. Peace lilies adorn the church, and a coffin sits before an altar. SISTER NETTA is standing in front of the congregation with a choir behind her. SISTER is singing a beautiful hymn passionately….
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Astro City: Ep1 Act 3 (Black Horror Web Series)
ACT 3, SCENE 1 EXT: DOWNTOWN UNDERGROUND SUBWAY STOP – LATENIGHT OMAR (O.S.) (slowly coming into shot) Yeah, I’m heading back home right now. Why? Oh! You want to see me? OMAR jogs down to steps to the subway with his messenger bag swinging at his hips, pays his toll and walks out…
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BLACK HORROR STORY: Astro City Series
Astro City Pilot/ ‘Welcome to the AC’ Written by M. J. Cross TEASER Act 1, SCENE 1 INT: HOME Blood shot brown EYES dart wildly from left and right. The EYES keep moving behind a long wooden MASK with an elongated chin and puckered mouth. It appears tribal, but has an alien quality to…
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