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Raheem Abdul Muhammed on Horror Movies

Saturday Night Live1981Season 7Episode 4
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The setup

Raheem Abdul Muhammed brings his own racial and economic perspective to horror movies in a pointed SNL Newsbreak film review.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Brian Doyle-Murray introduces Eddie Murphy’s recurring film critic Raheem Abdul Muhammed at the SNL Newsbreak desk. Raheem argues that horror movies provoke different reactions from Black and white audiences, turning descriptions of gruesome attacks into a commentary on race and class. He focuses on wealthy characters buying haunted houses and carefree college students becoming slasher victims, treating their choices as absurd rather than frightening. Brian closes the brief desk commentary after Raheem signs off.

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I spend a hell of a lot of time in dark rooms watching movies.

Who buys haunted houses, right?

ScriptEnglish · 15 turns

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  1. 00:00

    Brian Doyle-Murray

    And now, here's our Newsbreak film critic, Raheem Abdul-Mohamed. Raheem.

  2. 00:06

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    Thank you, Brian Don Murray, and thank you for that warm round of applause.

  3. 00:10

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    You know, I'm Raheem Abdul-Mohamed, and as you can pretty well imagine, I spend a hell of a lot of time in dark rooms watching movies.

  4. 00:18

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    And it seems like about 90% of the movies I see these days is horror films, right? So my days is filled with a lot of hacking and chopping and blood spurting and knives getting shoved in people's eyeballs, right? Your head's getting sliced off with chainsaws.

  5. 00:32

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    And I've been noticing something at the theater lately. Most of the audience that go to see them movies is black people, brothers now.

  6. 00:39

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    And I ask myself, I say, Raheem, how come so many brothers go to see them movies because the movies can't be no more scary than their own neighborhoods?

  7. 00:46

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    So I tell you why we go to see them movies. We go to see them movies because it's funny to see rich white people get killed.

  8. 00:52

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    Think about the movies. Who buys haunted houses, right? The rich white people buy a haunted house.

  9. 00:56

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    now black people can't even afford no house if they could afford a house they wouldn't buy one that was haunted right

  10. 01:01

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    so be perfectly honest it's pretty funny to see white people in them houses getting their skulls caved in or they get crushed or something

  11. 01:12

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    poor people never get hurt in their movies man

  12. 01:14

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    take like them college movies like death train and friday the 13th who getting killed in the movies the college movies who getting decapitated with meat cleavers who's getting dismembered with a tommy hawk who's getting their face melted with with a blowtorch,

  13. 01:26

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    rich white people that have lots of simulated sex.

  14. 01:29

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    You never see no nigga in Puerto Rico getting hurt in that movie, and that's why we like him.

  15. 01:33

    Raheem Abdul Muhammed

    I'm Raheem Abdul-Mahamed.

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