Dewayne Perkins on Being The Blackening’s Queer Final Girl
Vulture (2023)
Dewayne Perkins doesn’t play by cinema’s preestablished rules. His existence as a queer Black man in horror defies the tropes of a genre that has often reduced people like him to inauthentic caricatures or disposable fodder, usually fated to be a slasher villain’s first victims.