Welcome II the Terrordome (1995)

This week, the Crit Club heads into the dystopian, extremely recognizable near future with Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome. Onwurah explores Black existence in this speculative fiction story, where Black people are forced to live in a squalid, enclosed slum they call The Terrordome. This gut punch of a film, which is also teeming with vibrant expression, refuses to look away from the fury that centuries of racial injustice has wrought. It's made all the more tragic by how familiar it feels to modern life, despite being made almost 30 years ago. Join us as we discuss this extraordinarily affecting movie.

Other things we mentioned:

- Do the Right Thing

- District 9

- Hateful Eight

- The Queen's Gambit

- Books of Blood

- Tremors

- Housu

- Mad Men

Join us next week, when we're whisked away to feudal Japan to watch Akira Kurosawa's follow up to Yojimbo, 1962's Sanjuro. 

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