African Americans and horror: a chronicle. Through interviews, clips, testimonials, we retrace the evolution of the role of “blackness” in genre films, from the racism of the beginning of the century to the revolutionary watershed of “The night of the living dead”, from blaxploitation to Jordan Peele (and beyond). Between unknown gems and milestones, an in-depth analysis that sifts the mesh of reciprocal influences of which the relationship between cinema and society is made.