![]() Third-person chronological relation of events are inter-spliced with newspaper clippings and interviews about prom night and Maddie’s past, creating a haunting uncertainty while lambasting a media that is more willing to exploit moments of racial conflict than interrogate them. Jackson kills it with this nod to Stephen King’s Carrie, drawing clever and clear connections from our nation’s tragic history (and present) to the horror genre. Tensions rise among residents and classmates unhappy with Wendy’s efforts just as Maddie begins to understand her powers, a combustible situation that comes to a head on prom night. Meanwhile, Wendy, Jules’ tender-hearted but clueless friend decides to plan the town’s first integrated prom. ![]() Her life becomes a living hell after that, as she is tormented by the overprivileged, racist, she-devil incarnate Jules at school and her sadistic father at home, but Maddie’s pain leads her to the shocking discovery that she is telekinetic. Light-skinned and with straightened hair, high schooler Maddie Washington has been passing as white at the (often violent) demand of her abusive white father, but when she’s caught in the rain, her voluminous hair reveals her long-held secret: she’s Black. It’s 2014, yet residents of former sundown town Springville, Georgia, continue to cling to a number of racist traditions, including segregated proms. ![]()
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