Being John Malkovich 2

Rating: 7/10 (24 February 2019)

This reminded me of League Of Gentlemen, which was a British black comedy series (black as in very dark humour), about an outsider visiting a village full of very strange 'locals'. Tonally this didn't come across as horror as much as it did a black comedy.
It's a decent premise and that feeling of being the outsider in a group of people pretending to accept you is almost tangible.
Where the comedy comes in is in the behaviour of the other 'ethnic minorities' as they respond to Chris (It's more demented than scary as is Caleb Landry Jones Brad Pitt impersonation), as well as the whole idea behind the story - kind of like a sinister Being John Malkovich (also starring Catherine Keener), which makes sense as upon further reading I have discovered this is the unofficial sequel to BJM.
Still, the film has its moments and you find yourself really rooting for Chris willing him to get the hell out of there.
The film missed a trick by confronting the horrors of racism in an everyday way instead opting for almost cinema of the absurd with more than a few surreal Danny Boylian moments.
Violence as the black man's only method of resolution also seems dubious. Other than that it was an enjoyable popcorn movie. Not sure it was worthy of an Oscar. It wasn't that good.