Saturday, February 29, 2020

Celebrating Black History Month: LL Cool J, the first black man to survive a horror movie


We've all heard the joke that the black guy always gets it in a horror movie.  Well, uber-sexy actor LL Cool J broke that rule.  In Deep Blue Sea, released in July 1999, he and Thomas Jane survive in an underwater laboratory studying mako sharks, using them to harvest experimental drugs to treat Alzheimer's Disease sufferers.  Of course, nothing goes as planned and the sharks break loose, eating everyone they can.

Spoiler alert!

LL Cool J's character Preacher kills two of the three sharks.  The first he blows up by igniting the gas from an oven, where the shark tried to roast him.

The second he blows up with an explosive dart, almost killing Thomas Jane's Carter in the process.


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