I'm a Survivor: Black Actors Who Didn't Die in Horror Films

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  • Keith David, The Thing
  • Brandy, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Brandon Adams, The People Under the Stairs
  • Duane Martin, Scream 2
  • Jada Pinkett-Smith, Demon Knight
  • Tanedra Howard, Saw VI
  • Morris Chestnut, The Cave
  • Usher, The Faculty
  • Kasi Lemmons, The Silence of the Lambs
  • Nia Long, Stigmata
  • LL Cool J, Halloween: H20
  • Laurence Fishburne, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warrior
  • Morgan Freeman, Se7en
  • Loretta Devine, Urban Legend
  • Taye Diggs, The House on Haunted Hill

Keith David in The Thing

Who says Black people are always the first to die in scary movies?

Our gallery of survivors kicks off with John Carpenter's cult classic The Thing.  David plays the chief mechanic at a government research station in Antarctica. He discovers and adopts a death-defying canine only to find the animal has been possessed by an extraterrestrial being who body-hops its way around the station, leaving all but David and one other lucky survivor for dead. Keith David is arguably one of the first Black characters to survive a horror flick.  

(Photo: Universal Pictures)

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