Karen will be turning up to cinemas worldwide… and asking to speak to the manager.
While the idea of turning the awful white lady into a horror villain sounds intriguing – and obviously funny – many people aren’t seeing the funny side.
Taryn Manning (Orange Is The New Black) will pay the neighbour from hell when Jasmin Burke (Imani) and Corey Hardrict (Malik) move in next door. The race horror concept quickly follows Amazon’s awful limited series Them, and its predecessor Get Out.
While Get Out was a success, many (including us) felt that Them was just 10 episodes trauma porn and unnecessary excessive violence on black characters.
But people aren’t just frustrated at the copycat of the sub-genre, but the fact that Karen draws inspiration from real-life women who have dangerous streaks of racism; like the Karen who called the police on a black man falsely claiming he was attacking her.
Furthermore, Karen potentially oversteps the mark when it conveys the police brutality that Karen inflicts on her black neighbours; which many believe is opening up old wounds.
Writing for The Guardian, Tayo Bero said: “The works that Get Out spawned don’t have as much to say about the topic as the source material does, and what results is a constant reopening of the wounds of racial violence, for very little payoff.”
Karen doesn’t have a release date as of yet.