"I've seen this movie! The black guy dies first!"
- Harry Block (played by Orlando Jones): EVOLUTION (2001)

OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR "LIFE"
On March 24, 2017, the Black Guy gets it first!

When I first began THE UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT back in 1998 at the old geocities site, I was criticized for creating a lie. I simply said:
"The RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT is to let you know that, no matter how many victims or how many people from different races are in the Horror/Thriller movie, the whites and ONLY the whites were cast as the survivors."

I had my many detractors at the time who said things like:
"There is no such thing."

"It's your imagination."

"You need to get a life."

Or
"You aren't a minority so this doesn't concern you."
If it's my race doing this, how does that not "concern" me?

"Aw man I'm done! Brothers never survive these things!"
- Preacher (played by LL Cool J): DEEP BLUE SEA (1999)

So I challenged my critics to go out and see 5 Horror/Thriller movies: any five, their choice. All I asked is that the movie have minorities in the cast (not some quick walk on or someone in the background of a crowd scene).

So these horror fans went out. They came back with a few movie titles where the THE RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT did not apply, and in fairness I list those films here. But they also came back with an overwhelming number of movies where the "rule" did apply, and they were amazed.

From then on, I added the word UNFAIR to THE RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT. The UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT specifically (but not only) applies to movies made or backed by Hollywood, as I have not seen this "Rule Of Death" appear so consistently in Independent movies or movies made outside of the United States.

I used to post it in the reviews only where applicable, but the list grew too long. It needed its own place.

This page was created over 20 years ago on January 8, 2000.

With nearly every new Horror/Thriller movie coming out, the list keeps growing.

I welcome any who challenge the ALERT to offer me movie titles that contradict this page.

I will gladly post the titles of the accurate ones.

The list, inexplicably, does not include Hollywood Horror Comedies. Why? Who knows? But Hollywood Horror Comedies seemingly never follow the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHE ALERT.

It's as if someone in the command chain says, "Whoa! I hate minorities the same as the rest of you, but this is comedy we're talking about and that has a completely different set of rules! No killing off all the minorities in a comedy!"

101 Coincidences and Counting!

"Along with me I'm gonna need a scientist, an engineer, and of course, a black person to sacrifice himself in case something goes wrong."
- Eric Cartman, SOUTH PARK, Season 9, Cartman's Hippie Exit Strategy 2006

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