I'm A Survivor: Black Actors Who Didn't Die In Horror Films

These stars beat the odds against murderers and psychos.

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Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out - Who says Black people are always the first to die in scary movies? Our gallery of horror movie survivors kicks off with Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out. As Chris Washington, he beat the horror movie odds and the results was one of the most successful films of 2017. Stay Woke and don't get in that sunken place!(Photo: Universal Studios)
Brandy in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer - Brandy played Jennifer Love Hewitt's roommate in this campy classic. The BFFs go on vacay to the Bahamas only to deal with a hurricane and a creepy fisherman who wants them dead. But Brandy manages to scream — and curse — her way to safety. (Photo: Matthew Rolston/UPN/Delivered by Online USA)Keith David in The Thing - In John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic The Thing, David plays the chief mechanic at a government research station in Antarctica. He discovers and adopts a death-defying canine only to find the animal has been possessed by an extraterrestrial being who body-hops its way around the station, leaving all but David and one other lucky survivor for dead. Keith David is arguably one of the first Black characters to survive a horror flick.   (Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)

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We've all seen the horror flicks where Black folks die first. In honor of Halloween, also known as horror movie season, here are Black actors who survived terrifying films.

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