Jasmin Savoy Brown stars in Scream 6 and Yellowjackets.
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Whether you love jump scares or find yourself plugging your ears and clutching pillows, horror is a powerful place for social commentary. And while it hasn’t always been a safe space for POCs, times are changing.
On this episode, film critics Mallory Yu and Richard Newby talk about how horror as a genre has evolved, whose nightmares we’re telling, and how scary movies can actually help us empathize with each other.
Then, host B.A. Parker talks to Jasmin Savoy Brown of the recently-released Scream 6 about playing a queer Black girl who lives.
Production and booking help from Kumari Devarajan, Alyssa Jeong Perry and Olivia Chilkoti
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