Welcome to the Blumhouse, an Amazon Prime Video Halloween event, is in full swing, with two films already out: Bingo Hell and Black as Night. Both films tackle communities struggling against a force that supernaturally preys on their vulnerabilities and is rooted in realism. For the protagonists of Black as Night, their foes are vampires, beings who target the disenfranchised in their quest for food and domination -- akin to gentrification.

In Black as Nightvampire hunters are teenagers who decide enough is enough. They will fight for their community, even when their foe is a centuries-old vampire with plenty of other creatures of the night to call upon for help. The protagonist's youth and optimism work in direct contrast to the vampires, who've witnessed years of cyclical hate, bigotry, and violence; but, that does not excuse their actions. Black as Night tackles social issues through the use of vampires and a young cast of characters. In an interview with CBR, the film's stars Mason Beauchamp, Craig Tate, and Fabrizio Guido leaned into the film's overall message and scares.

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A lot of horror movies use genre to tackle different social issues, so I would love to know why you think vampires work so well to tackle the multitude of themes and issues present in this film.

Mason Beauchamp: I think it has a lot to do with blood. It has a lot to do with what makes people go on. What makes people tick, and all of these issues ultimately have been going on for so long that this film touches upon that it's the same thing as what the vampires are doing. It's draining, even more so than acutely taking people out of sorts or out of some type of way. It is draining to deal with these things over time, and it's kind of like we were talking about earlier, history repeats itself. How long can people in communities keep dealing with stuff before it does eventually boil over at some point?

Craig Tate: The Greeks commonly associated old age with wisdom by experience. What better way to show that than through vampires, who are by way immortal, so they've seen their fair share of social injustices, and they understand that it's not a thing of modernity; it's a thing of history repeating itself over and over. It's a cyclical nature, so vampires and mortality issues repeating themselves.

Fabrizio Guido: I think that these vampires represent a vessel. They're kind of like a metaphor for what's going on in the world, and like Craig said, the opportunity to just have someone alive and witness some of the worst in humanity makes for a character that's going to be really interesting and have some things to say.

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One thing that's super exciting about this film is how it focuses on a group of younger protagonists tackling these issues with their community, as well as these vampires. What is going to speak to audiences of that age, as well as a more general audience?

Guido: I think that you'll realize that the chemistry within these young characters is very real, because I had such a great time working with everyone, and the chemistry aspect was easy. I don't get tired of saying that. These are friends of mine. So you'll be able to acknowledge that I think it's very current in the way we act as young people and also the way we would approach fighting vampires. We don't know what's going on, but we're all solving this together, putting our heads together to find a solution and find a map to the obstacles being thrown at us.

I think that it also gives you a chance to see the kind of world that we're living in currently, through a lot of these characters. It feels very real. It's something that could happen. You know what I'm saying? Obviously not, but it makes you think this could happen. This is set in New Orleans. These are young people. These are people that are going to a party. These are people that are fighting vampires in this way.

Beauchamp: I would agree, and not only that, but to kind of piggyback off what Fab said, I think young people, especially in the digital age and more than people really want to realize, are kind of the moderators culturally as far as things socially, even moving into political spheres, pop culture.

Young people determine where the needle is, so to see young people thrust into a situation and into social issues that are typically more often narrated by an older generation, are moderated and filter through somebody else who's been here already. It is interesting to see young people get an opportunity to tackle these issues and still figure out a sense of community even though we all come out from different places. We've all come from different backgrounds in this film, and that is reflected in all of our real lives as well.

Tate: I would say the symbolism of the vibrance of youth. When you look at the course of history, individuals like Alexander the Great conquered much of his territory before he was 28-years-old. You have individuals, these vampires, who have been alive for centuries, yet they face their ultimate fate by the hands of a 17-year-old. That's not coincidence. That is the idea of saying use your youth to attack your life.

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