And it’s a bleak, toothy acknowledgment of the racism of the looming white monster that is Hollywood, and the United States. It’s also one of the most infamous instances of the racist trope in which black people in horror are murdered to add excitement and pathos to the plight of white victims.
The death of Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's The Shiningis one of the great WTF head fakes in horror film history.
