This February, Midnight Social Distortion will be celebrating Black History Month by honoring Black horror characters, in particular Black horror survivors, throughout the twenty-eight day period. Each day will feature one black male and one black female survivor in horror and sci-fi to bring light to the positive, albeit still problematic, black champions of representation in horror. Some disclaimers first: obvious spoilers ahead, and not all horror survivors will be featured this go round, but will appear in later posts down the line.
Jake Washington (Texas Battle)
Character Arc
Just a typical reality show contestant, former All-American football player Jake Washington thought being on The Apocalypse: Ultimate Survivalist would put his name on the map. But again, what he didn’t sign up for was to become chow for some backwoods, cannibal mutants. Sticking close to the final girl and simply being lucky AF, Jake managed to escape becoming lunch meat for Three Finger and gang.
Fun Trivia
To this date, Jake may be the sole surviving black person in a Wrong Turn movie.
Final Thoughts
Nothing truly memorable about good ole Jake. In fact, he slick relied on the final girl and the last person to die, Henry Rollins’s Dale, to survive.
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