Black Actors Who Survived Scary Movies

Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Brandy Norwood in "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures. — Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Brandy Norwood in “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures.

Have you ever watched a scary movie with a significant Black character in it and prayed he or she didn’t die first?! Well, of course you have. But the Black guy dies first stigma hasn’t always been the case for a few famous Black actors and actresses who managed to smartly survive or butt-kick their way through to the end of many horror sub-genres.

In celebration of Halloween, MadameNoire is highlighting black actors (and their characters) who made it in popular horror films… sometimes as the lead! Black viewers of these films didn’t have to scream at the screen for unnecessarily killing off the brother or sister — thinking, “he or she could’ve made it.”