The Blackening (2023) Best Movie Quotes

Starring: Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo, Dewayne Perkins, Antoinette Robertson, Sinqua Walls, Jay Pharoah, Yvonne Orji, James Preston Rogers

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Comedy horror directed by Tim Story. The Blackening (2023) centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain’t no m-fing game.

Best Quotes

Morgan: But why the hell didn’t you say something? Damn, you almost made me spill my wine.
Shawn: So, you almost break your man nose, but, “Oh, no. My wine?”

Shawn: Is it Blade’s house? Where’s Wesley? I want to talk to Wesley. If it is, you know what they pay you for.

Shawn: [as opens the game room door] Enter my port of doom.

Morgan: The Blackening. Seriously?
Shawn: Yep. What in the Jim Crow f***, right?
Morgan: Uh-uh. This is hella disturbing. Why the hell is this in this house? This was not in any of the reviews. But guess what? It’s about to be.

Blackening Game: Pick a card.
Shawn: At least we know it’s working. S**t probably runs on racism.
Morgan: Now that is one battery that ain’t dying no time soon.

Shawn: What you got?
Morgan: [reading from the card] “You are a Black character in a horror movie. Prove that you can stay alive. Name one Black character that survived a horror movie. You must answer correctly, or you die.” What the hell?
Shawn: Oh. So this is just an aggressively themed trivia game.

Shawn: I know that answer. It is Jada Pinkett, Omar Epps, Scream 2. Boom, Sambo.
Morgan: Them n****s was the first to die. What are you talking about? I honestly think that the studio didn’t have the budget to keep them the whole movie. That’s why they had to die first.

Blackening Game: Your time has run out. You did not answer correctly.
Morgan: But hold up. How the hell does a game know if we answer correctly or not?
Shawn: It don’t. Watch this. You watching us, Sambo?
Blackening Game: Well, yes, I am. It’s time to die.

Lisa: This whole reunion about to crack, and you know Morgan ain’t playing when it comes to the party planning.
Allison: Okay, because we about to turn it all the way up.

Dewayne: Who all going to be there?
Allison: [mind talking] B**ch, you didn’t tell him that Nnamdi was coming?
Lisa: [mind talking] I was going to.
Allison: [mind talking] Really?
Lisa: [mind talking] Hell, no!

Shanika: Okay, Chainsaw Massacre man, I see you.

Shanika: And why do you got so much damn toilet paper?
Clifton: You have so many Rap Snacks. That’s a lot of salt.

Dewayne: Okay, is it just me or is this giving Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
Allison: I don’t know. I never seen that film. White people scare me.
Lisa: But your daddy is White.
Allison: Exactly. And, girl, that’s why every single time he gets mad, I’m like, “Oh, Lord, here it comes. Murder-suicide.” You know I’m serious.

Dewayne: Oh, my God. Really, b**ch? A cabin in the woods?
Lisa: It’s technically a house.

'You got Rosa Parks on your shirt, right? Would she be sitting down right now?' - King, 'I mean, that's exactly what she did.' - Allison (The Blackening) Share on X

King: Can’t let the ignorance of his prejudice disrupt our inner peace.
Allison: What?
Dewayne: Okay, Gandhi.
Allison: So when did you get all namaste, King?

King: This ain’t the Blackest s**t ever?
Lisa: You know what else is real Black? Diabetes. Ain’t nobody drinking that.

King: I’m going to pray that you get all that hate out your heart.
Lisa: And why would you do that? That’s what keeps me nice and young.

King: I call it King’s Kool-Ayyy.
Nnamdi: The f***, brother. Call it King’s Kool-No.
King: Is it that bad?
Nnamdi: Yes, bro. You tripping. Sugar f*** around and give you a cramp.

Nnamdi: I’m a new man.
King: Wow. You know what I call that?
Nnamdi: Growth.
King: Delusion.
Nnamdi: What?
King: You been saying that same thing like every two years since we met. You do some f*** s**t, you feel bad, you reflect, become a new man. But then the new n**** do some f*** s**t, and the whole cycle just start over again.

Nnamdi: You still a slave to the White man?
King: Y’all going to stop calling my wife the White man, alright? Her name is Jenny. And she ain’t “White” White. She ethnic White. She Armenian.
Nnamdi: Come on, man. That b**ch is dog-kisses on-the-mouth, pumpkin-spice-latte, Sweet-Caroline, Bye-Bye-Bye White.

Nnamdi: Man, you really in the “Sunken Place”.
King: Balls deep, my brother. Balls deep.

Clifton: Anyway, do you guys have an Android charger?
Shanika: I told you, we don’t support that.
Clifton: Alright, well, you can’t win them all.

Shanika: [to Lisa] Ooh, You smell like d**k. What the f*** you been doing?
Shanika: [as she sees Nnamdi] Oh. That’s who you been doing.
Clifton: I accidentally smelled some of the d**k.

Dewayne: A friend of mine once told me, “People can grow.” At the time, I didn’t know what she meant, but now I know that she meant, “Grow apart.” And then they die. And that’s called fate.

Clifton: I love Ouija boards. One time I tried to summon Gary Coleman and he was not happy.

Allison: We literally came all this way to party and play games. So that’s what I’m doing. Oh, come on. This is clearly Morgan’s work. I am not even tripping. Let’s just play.
Nnamdi: Yeah. I’m with Allison. Everybody falling for this fake creepiness. But I’m going to beat her at her own game.
Shanika: Yeah, Morgan. I see you. Game on, b**ch.

Allison: So, I guess the question is how do we play?
King: Ask the little racist n**** here.
Blackening Game: Pick a card and save Morgan.

Shanika: It said our names, y’all. This s**t is “personal” personal.

Allison: So, he just going to force us to do a Black history test?
Dewayne: I don’t understand. Why make us play this game? If you just going to kill us, just kill us.
Shanika: Shut the f*** up, Dewayne.

Lisa: “Name five Black actors that have appeared on the hit TV show Friends.”
Nnamdi: This is a trick question, right?

Dewayne: [referring to Friends] You know, they were very “plug and play” with the Black people on that show.

Shanika: Ooh, b**ch, that’s some good-a** wig glue.

Shanika: None of us m**herf***ing dying today.

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Lisa: You got a gun?
Nnamdi: Bruh, I knew you had a gun.
King: Wow, that’s profiling.

Dewayne: Are there any White people who want to kill us?
Lisa: I mean, potentially all of them.

Allison: I mean, a white guy said he wanted to kill me yesterday.
Nnamdi: What? Who?
Allison: I don’t know. He was just some stranger on Twitter. He was mad at me because I said that the O’Reilly Auto Parts theme song was more culturally relevant than the Star-Spangled Banner.
Dewayne: I mean, you’re not wrong.

Lisa: [reading from the card] “In your predicament, the Black character is always the first to die. I will spare your lives if you sacrifice the person you deem the Blackest to me.”

Dewayne: It don’t even make sense, “the Blackest”. That is so subjective.

Nnamdi: Alright, look, nobody should judge anybody in here, bruh.
Shanika: I know you ain’t over here trying to argue about who should be the Blackest here, Nnamdi.
Nnamdi: What, why?
Allison: Because you are a literal African, Nnamdi. You are like still in its original packaging Black. I’m sorry, boo, but on paper, you the Blackest.

Nnamdi: [referring to Allison] But if anybody is the Blackest here, it’s African diaspora, Angela Rye head a** over here.

Allison: Okay. So, that’s what we doing? Because every single time one of y’all make a joke, it’s always, “Oh, Allison, you White this. Allison, you White that.” But now, when it is the most convenient for you, you want to use my Blackness?
Nnamdi: Absolutely.
Allison: Absolutely not, n****. Because guess what? If we playing this game, my daddy is White with “wha”, so it’s surely not me.

King: I’m a ex-gangsta, alright? I changed my life. And I’m married to a White woman, so.
Lisa: That does not help.
King: You right. I’m going to shut up.

Dewayne: I’m going to need so much therapy if we get through this.

Dewayne: Black people don’t do therapy.
Lisa: Well, actually, Black people are slowly but surely adopting healthier mental health lifestyles.

Dewayne: Y’all can’t pick me! I’m gay.
Shanika: N****, you always using that s**t.
Dewayne: No. No. And just like my homophobic family member says, “Gayness is just whiteness wrapped up in a bunch of d**ks,” and today, I agree.
Shanika: “Bunch of d**ks”?

Clifton: Guys, I can prove I’m not the Blackest.
Shanika: Prove it!
Clifton: I’ve never seen Friday.
Nnamdi: What the f***?
Clifton: I thought Black Twitter was a type of seasoning. I like Jimmy Fallon without The Roots.
Nnamdi: That’s wrong.

Clifton: Beyonce’s Super Bowl performance made me unsafe.
Dewayne: Same.
Clifton: I voted for Trump.
Nnamdi: What?
Clifton: Twice.

Dewayne: We have a minute left. Somebody trying to kill us, and arguing is only going to make it easier. We need a plan. Our ancestors did not die for us to abandon each other, our morals, and our Blackness at the moment’s notice in the face of adversity.
Lisa: Boy, I know you did not just go into some complete, dramatic-a** monologue when you knew we only had one minute left.

Clifton: [after the others pick him] You know, I really thought we connected. You know, if you guys had any more sense, you’d know that this is what the game wanted us to do. To turn on each other. To act like animals. You gave it what it wanted.

Clifton: Do you like Hunger Games? I love the books. But you probably don’t even read.

Dewayne: Oh, my God. This game is impossible to win.

Blackening Game: The rules are simple. Survive.

Nnamdi: We can cut across the woods, and make it to the other side of the road. If we all make it, then we’ll all be safe.
Dewayne: What movies have you seen? Because that’s f***ing stupid.

Lisa: Hey, find some weapons.
Dewayne: Look for something sharp.
Shanika: Here. Use these.
Allison: Thanks. Wait. Chili powder? Girl, what I’m finna do, cook?
Shanika: Sorry, girl. We ran out of knives.

Dewayne: Really? A candlestick? Do you think you in Clue?
Lisa: Don’t start with me. I could f*** somebody up with this. What are you going to do? Tenderize his a**?
Dewayne: At least it’s metal, Colonel Mustard. That looks plastic.
Lisa: At least this just has a little weight to it. It has some girth.

Nnamdi: No, you supposed to be dead, bruh.
King: This ain’t that movie.

King: I got shot once.
Lisa: Twice!
King: In the same spot. One hole. It hurt like hell, but I can run. My legs work.

Nnamdi: [after Allison suggest they split up] Oh, see, Allison. I knew you was going to say that s**t, but I figured that was just your White side talking.
Allison: This is not my White half talking, Nnamdi. This is me talking as a whole-a** Black person, who just so happens to be biracial. My “Blackness” should not be in question just because I am simply suggesting that separating might actually help us stay alive.
Dewayne: Allison, yes, you do have a point. But do you really think your Black side did them air quotes? That feels exclusively Caucasian.

Dewayne: I didn’t know that a psycho killer in blackface was going to be the person that was here when I asked who all was going to be here?
Lisa: This feels like the end of Set it Off.

Dewayne: When did we become the kind of people that walk into dark-a** basements?

King: This ain’t the time to be sitting down. I need you to be strong. You got Rosa Parks on your shirt, right? Would she be sitting down right now?
Allison: I mean, that’s exactly what she did.

Dewayne: F***ing of course, he’d go after the darkest people first.

Shanika: They probably assume we can’t swim anyway.
King: They be assuming right, because I can’t.
Shanika: Wow! Way to be a f***ing stereotype.
King: You know what? You go ahead and hop your little privileged a** in that dark,
mysterious water, I’m going to climb up this tree.

King: [referring to climbing the tree] I ran from cops. I dodged bullets. I jumped gates. This is easy.

Dewayne: Ranger White? Is that you?
Ranger White: In the flesh.
Dewayne: Oh, s**t. Is this good or bad?

Lisa: Wait. How do we know we can trust him?
Ranger White: I’m one of the good ones.
Dewayne: Oh, that does not help. They all say that.
Lisa: That actually makes you seem more suspicious.

Ranger White: You can trust me. Seriously. If I got an invite to the cookout, I’d be honored, but I wouldn’t go.
Lisa: Any why the f*** not?
Ranger White: Because I know my presence in that all-Black space would be a disturbance and undo it being an all-Black space.
Lisa: That’s a pretty good answer.

Dewayne: Look, I’ve never been so happy to see a White savior. Somebody is trying to kill us. Please help us. Please!
Ranger White: Woh. Slow down.
Lisa: A masked killer is after us, and two of our friends are dead.
Ranger White: What do you mean dead?
Nnamdi: Dead. Dead, meet your maker dead, dead.

Ranger White: Where are the rest of your friends?
Lisa: We split up.
Ranger White: Split up? But you’re all Black.
Dewayne: Woh! Do not get comfortable.
Lisa: I know you didn’t.
Nnamdi: Bold move, bro.
Ranger White: Sorry.

Dewayne: Why White people always got to go where they shouldn’t go?

Shanika: See, this why I don’t come to the woods because of crazy White m**herf***ers like this. And they always got some dirty-a** shoes on.

Dewayne: You shady m**herf***ers left me to die! And I just saved y’all a**es. But f*** me, though, right?
Nnamdi: You told us to leave you.
Dewayne: N****, you know I didn’t mean that s**t.

Nnamdi: How long do y’all think we should wait in here?
Dewayne: I don’t know. Probably till morning?
Nnamdi: The f***er a vampire or something? Why the f*** is morning more better?
Dewayne: I don’t know. Because it’s bright out and less scary.
Nnamdi: That makes sense.

Lisa: I’m sorry we left you, but it’s not every day I’m faced with f***ing life or death decisions.
Dewayne: It’s good to know when it comes to me, the decision is death.

Lisa: If you have something to say, say it. No time like the present.
Nnamdi: I disagree. There is a better time than the present, and it is not right now.

Dewayne: [to Lisa, referring to Nnamdi] I feel like I wasted my f***ing time. Because look at you now, you got your man, your house, and I’m pushed to the curb, again. You have never treated me like a best friend. You’ve treated me like a gay side chick. You leaving me and picking him proves exactly that.

Lisa: Why the f*** Black women got to save everyone all the Goddamn time?!

King: So, somebody paid these evil racist twins to kill us all. Is that it?
Dewayne: And this is all we worth? It’s like one thousand dollars. This is offensive.

King: Y’all are acting real White right now.

Clifton: [after it’s revealed Clifton is the mastermind behind the killings] You know, I was just so excited to be around people that looked like me. And I’ll be the first to admit, I was never the best dancer, Dewayne. Or the funniest, Shanika. Or the best cheater, Nnamdi. Relax. Or whatever you do, Lisa.
Lisa: I’m an attorney.
Clifton: Congrats.

Clifton: I honestly thought that those redneck twins would have gotten the job done. But they didn’t. I guess cheap labor is cheap for a reason.

Clifton: How about once and for all we find out which one of you is the Blackest? I’m going to call this round, Black Sophie’s Choice. And remember, you brought this on yourselves. You know, for a moment, I actually thought maybe you changed. Maybe. Until you sent me out to die. And why? Because I wasn’t Black enough?

Lisa: I’ll play your game.
Clifton: Yes! Finally, we have a competitor. Now, go ahead. Choose. Which one’s the Blackest?
Lisa: I choose myself.

Nnamdi: Yo, this is trippy. I didn’t think this mind talking worked for the guys.

Shanika: Dewayne, I don’t want to shoot you. Say something gay.
Dewayne: B**ch, that is offensive. How f***ing dare you?
Shanika: Got it!
Clifton: You’re gay?

Lisa: We did it. We survived.
Nnamdi: So, what do we do now?
Dewayne: Call the cops?
[they all laugh]

Lisa: [mid-credits lines] So, why did we decide to do this?
Dewayne: Oh, because firemen won’t shoot you. You see? It’s called beating the system.

Shanika: [mid-credits lines] I know I’m high as f***, but, n****, did you change your clothes?
Dewayne: Yes, I did! The news might come. We might be on TV.

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