
Acting
Tananarive Due
Born 1966-01-05 · Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Tananarive Priscilla Due (born January 5, 1966) is an American author, educator and filmmaker. Due won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood. She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror.
Acting credits
NRFrom the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, Black Zombie unearths the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.
Black Zombie
2026
NRA coming of age story about a teenager whose ordinary day turns extraordinary, forcing him to take a leap of faith which will change his life forever.
Miles Underwater
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6.8Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019
1.0Chris Hardwick hosts this epic night celebrating all things Halloween, including interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Blum and David Gordon about the film Halloween Ends, and special celebrity appearances from Blake Shelton, Terry Crews and more.
Halloween in Hollywood
2022
NRA young girl moves in with her grandmother after her parents die, only to find herself in a haunted apartment building with a dark secret.
The Keeper
2025
NRA critical analysis of Candyman (1992) by writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes.
Urban Legend: Unwrapping Candyman
2018
NRThere are few monsters more recognizable or popular than the zombie. The reanimated corpse has been a staple of folklore, film, literature and popular culture for nearly 200 years. Join Dr. Emily Zarka, who studies literature and film through the lens of monsters, as she deconstructs some of the most significant moments in zombie popular culture over the last two centuries to reveal what these creatures say about us. In New Orleans, Dr. Zarka explores how zombie folklore arose before it became mainstream and discovers more about the spiritual and historical roots of zombie lore.
Exhumed: A History of Zombies
2020
Behind the camera
4.5An anthology film presenting six short horror stories from black writers and directors, featuring racist vampires, supernatural creatures, and Satan his damn self.
Horror Noire
2021
NRA young girl moves in with her grandmother after her parents die, only to find herself in a haunted apartment building with a dark secret.
The Keeper
2025
NRA young girl moves in with her grandmother after her parents die, only to find herself in a haunted apartment building with a dark secret.
The Keeper
2025
A 13-year-old girl and her grandfather, hiding out in a wooded cabin after a plague, meet the challenge of their lives when her birthday trip to a Trading Post goes horribly awry.
Danger Word
2013