‘Horror Noire’ Scored by EmmoLei Sankofa to Air on AMC
Horror Noire, scored by EmmoLei Sankofa, which originally had its streaming premiere on Shudder on October 28, 2021, will now have it’s linear airing on AMC in February 2022. The anthology of six short horror films, all by Black filmmakers and screenwriters, originally aired as a two-hour film. The broadcast on AMC will now split the anthology into pairs of films, with the following broadcast schedule:
February 4 at 10pm – “The Lake” & “Brand of Evil”
February 11 at 10pm – “Bride Before You” & “Fugue State”
February 18 at 10pm – “Daddy” & “Sundown”
More about Horror Noire:
Compiled as part of the new anthology film Horror Noire, premiering Oct. 28 on Shudder and airing on AMC at a later date, the ensemble cast includes Lesley-Ann Brandt (Lucifer), Luke James (The Chi), Erica Ash (Survivor’s Remorse), Brandon Mychal Smith (Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral), Sean Patrick Thomas (The Curse of La Llorona), Peter Stormare (Amrican Gods) and Malcolm Barrett (Genius: Aretha Franklin) as well as Black horror legends Tony Todd (Candyman) and Rachel True (The Craft), who both appeared in the 2019 documentary.
The six stories feature a combination of original and adapted material and were penned by husband-and-wife writing duo Tananarive Due (My Soul to Keep) and Steven Barnes (Lion’s Blood), Ezra Claytan Daniels (BTTM FDRS), Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom), Shernold Edwards (All Rise) and Al Letson (Reveals). Due, a professor of African American Studies at UCLA, was an executive producer on the Horror Noire documentary, which was based on her research as well as that of Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, a consultant on the anthology alongside the original doc’s producers Ashley Blackwell, Phil Nobile Jr. and Kelly Ryan.
Horror Noire (the anthology) is produced by Swirl Films and executive produced by ID8 Multimedia’s Shelby Stone and Derek Dudley, Swirl founder Eric Tomosunas and Ron Robinson. (source: Hollywood Reporter)
