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Boo! — A Madea Halloween (Essay)

Metacritic:

46 ( Critics' score)

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In a genre filled with torture porn and psychological dread, sometimes you just want to watch a six-foot-tall man in a gray wig and mumu threaten to beat up a ghost with a shoe. It's Halloween night, and Madea (played, of course,

The plot is deceptively simple. It's Halloween night, and Madea (played, of course, by Tyler Perry) is forced to babysit her rebellious teenage niece, Tiffany (Diamond White), while her father, Brian (also Tyler Perry), goes on a romantic getaway. Tiffany has no interest in Madea’s rules. She wants to attend a frat party at the notoriously haunted "Meadowood" fraternity house, despite a county-wide curfew and rumors of a demonic presence. Why It Works: Subverting the Slasher Tropes When

Why It Works: Subverting the Slasher Tropes

When Jason Voorhees lumbers toward a screaming coed, you feel fear. When Madea pulls a butcher knife on a kid wearing a Ghostface mask and threatens to "whoop his Halloween costume clean off," you feel relief. She is the ultimate final girl, not because she’s young and agile, but because she has the unassailable armor of being too old to be afraid of death. She wields a handbag like a tactical weapon and treats supernatural threats like noisy neighbors.

Rotten Tomatoes:

27% ( Critics' score), 86% (Audience score)