1/10
Trying to pass the time before your appointment at Dignitas? Watch this.
10 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Black Annie is, well, a black girl called Annie. We see her at the beginning in her pre-demonic state, being chased by three boys until she falls (with hilarious scream) off a cliff. I don't think that's a spoiler. Cut to thirteen (or eighteen? I wasn't paying enough attention) years later, and the boys are all grown up. One of them bizarrely seems to have styled his performance on Stevie Wonder. There's a lecture on 'urban legends' being delivered at the local high school,just like in Candyman and Urban Legend (is urban legend a common part of the syllabus in the US?).The performances, especially by the black actors, are absolutely hilarious. And I guess that 'Black Annie' herself is quite well done, creepiness-wise. The result of all of this is quite obviously a masterpiece. My one-star rating might seem a bit harsh, but I desperately want the creators of the film to persevere in their efforts and continue to develop as artists. My fear was that a ten-star rating, though thoroughly deserved, may have encouraged them to rest on their laurels, thus cruelly depriving the world of their sure-to-be-amazing future work.
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