Why aren't there any Black horror/action/thriller/science-fiction movies?

[KingMalik]

There doesn't even need to be a big giant budget for these movies.

Saw was produced for $1.2 million...that's it.
The Purge was produced for $3 million.
Hostel was produced for $5 million.
American Psycho was produced for $8 million.
Napoleon Dynamite was produced for $400,000.
Chronicle (a sci-fi flick) was produced for a little bit more at $12 million.

To put this in comparison to Tyler Perry, most of his movies have budgets ranging from $5 million - $20 million

What's the excuse

 

[satam55]

Hollywood is. You saw how them Oscar voters showed they ass when it came to "Selma".

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[satam55]

There doesn't even need to be a big giant budget for these movies.

Saw was produced for $1.2 million...that's it.
The Purge was produced for $3 million.
Hostel was produced for $5 million.
American Psycho was produced for $8 million.
Napoleon Dynamite was produced for $400,000.
Chronicle (a sci-fi flick) was produced for a little bit more at $12 million.

To put this in comparison to Tyler Perry, most of his movies have budgets ranging from $5 million - $20 million

What's the excuse

When you mean black movies, you mean a movies with an All-black cast or movies from Black Directors/Writers/Producers?

 

[KingMalik]

When you mean black movies, you mean a movies with an All-black cast or movies from Black Directors/Writers/Producers?

Mostly black cast. It could be multi-ethnic though, as long as Blacks had major roles. I'm wondering why there's such a darth of black movies like this when films have been made with tiny tiny budgets. What's the excuse?

 

[Dwolf]

Because they don't do well.

 

[Neil Tyson]

Mostly black cast. It could be multi-ethnic though, as long as Blacks had major roles. I'm wondering why there's such a darth of black movies like this when films have been made with tiny tiny budgets. What's the excuse?

These slave, grievance movies are pretty much Oscar bait, like Selma, The Butler and 12 Years so they get funded by these big studios. All-black casts only sell well amongst black audiences which is what the Sony Pictures emails kind of alluded to when it came to black guys in lead roles. White audiences only like Denzel and Will Smith.

 

[William F. Russell]

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus?

 

[KingMalik]

Because they don't do well.

Even with a $1.2 million budget like Saw

How hard is it to make that back on the box office

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

 

[Dwolf]

Even with a $1.2 million budget like Saw

How hard is it to make that back on the box office

With an all black cast, pretty tough.

 

[satam55]

Even with a $1.2 million budget like Saw

How hard is it to make that back on the box office

With an all black cast, pretty tough.

It'd have to be a no-name cast with a no-name director.

 

[thenatural]

Marques Houston and Omarion had some real wack shyt a few years ago called "Somebody Help Me".

 

[Mr Rager]

"Evil has a whole new rap"

 

[Young Bishop]

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus?

Very entertaining

 

[Sauanaffe Tustunnagee]

if i had to guess i would say blacks in position to create such films aren't interested in them and/or don't want to take risk of stepping outside of the box...they would rather stick to what they know and comfortable with(urban comedies, romance,music biopics,hood movies, and slave/civil rights films ,etc) than go against the grain which they know there white backers in Hollywood would probably frown upon and less likely to greenlgiht..plus there is a perception that black audiences only interested in the aforementioned genres of black films and would less likely to support a black scifi or horror film