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The story is set in South Central Los Angeles, focusing on a group of friends, Lisa, Ty, Derrick, Andre, Kim, Eddie, and Tiffany, who as kids, played a cruel prank (despite the protests of Lisa) on a mentally disabled boy named Chauncey Page, luring him into an abandoned house and ganging up on him wearing skull masks; this leads to Chauncey accidentally pushing one of the kids' friends, Amandi, off a railing, killing her. Out of fear, they blame everything on Chauncey leading him to get arrested and sent to juvie...

Four years later, the kids are all grown up and have mostly forgotten what happened that day, as they are currently dealing with their own issues, such as relationship problems, hopes of a better future out of the 'hood, and the homecoming prom. But Chauncey's grown up as well: into a huge, quiet, pissed off young man, still wearing his infamous black hoodie, freshly released from prison.

The kids are unnerved by Chauncey's return, especially Lisa, but attempt to ignore it and go on with their lives. Soon though, people started dying and Lisa and her friends keep seeing Chauncey stalking them, leading them to fear that their past is coming back to haunt them. In the worst possible way...

The film was shown in the LA Film Festival on September 23, 2018 and was released on April 14, 2019 on Netflix.

RZA composed the movie's soundtrack, and also worked as executive producer and portrayed Principle Hurd in the film.

Is in no way related to the famous Michael Jackson album "Thriller", but has a ShoutOut to it at the film's end.

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* AscendedFangirl: Kim manages to seduce a rapper named Unique to be her prom date and manages to lose her virginity to him.

* BigDamnHeroes: Detective Johnson stops Chauncey after he appears at the prom and attempts to chase down and kill Ty. Then, [[spoiler: fucking ''Chauncey'' of all people]] comes to the rescue, when [[spoiler: Derrick (the real killer, whose been impersonating the ''real'' Chauncey)]] attempts to kill Lisa and Ty with Johnson's gun.
* BrickJoke: Chauncey buys a pack of cigerettes from a convience store; [[spoiler: he smokes one at the end of the movie after seeing Derrick lose his shit inside the hospital through a window]].

* ChekhovsGun: Gina's gun is used on Lisa. [[spoiler: But its really a water gun filled with cherry Kool-Aid]].
* ConfrontingYourImposter: [[spoiler: Chauncey battles Derrick, whose been impersonating him during his killing spree, ultimately winning by throwing Derrick into the path of a car]].
* {{Bookends}}: The film both starts of and begins with a crying mother pleading to the police that her young son is a good boy as the police do their work. The first time is when Chauncey is arrested, then at the end [[spoiler: when the cops go into Derrick's room despite the pleas of his mother and find his creepy murder shrine in his closet]].

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: A young Chauncey is introduced buying a hot dog for a homeless man and walking pass two kids jump-roping, despite the two laughing at him for being a "retard" when he could've wallopped them. And while he kills Amandi (by accident) and yells "I'm gonna get you!" to the kids as he's hauled away, [[spoiler: he feels bad about killing Amandi and when he's released, he goes home and becomes a shut-in, never making good on his threat. However, he comes out of his house to stop the killer, Derrick, who was impersonating as him]].

** Chauncey only kills those involved in the accident and anyone who pissed him off. Despite brutally beating a local drug dealer's thugs, he doesn't kill them. He also knocks out Principle Hurd with a chair and leaves him alone as he goes after Ty (he leaves Gina alone after she trips).
** Chauncey confronts the drug dealer who bothered him earlier by attacking his men and threatening him with his own gun; it appears he only wanted to scare him as he ends up putting the gun on ground and lets him go. However, when the dealer calls him a "bitch", Chauncey ends up grabbing him and gutting him with a knife.
* TheFaceless: Chauncey's black hoodie covers nearly his whole face during all of his scenes as an adult, however his mouth is briefly seen when he's hiding from Detective Johnson; [[spoiler: Derrick goes the extra mile to use a full, see through mask to hide his face]].

** Perhaps the most obvious hint is when [[spoiler: Derrick is confronted over his grades (he was an A-student and went to a D-student); he is apathetic about his failing grades, saying that most black people end up dying anyway, mostly by a member of their own race]]. This type of behavior and attitude is reminiscent of real-life school shooters, or anyone in general, ''before'' they go on a rampage.
** When Derrick discovers [[spoiler: that his prom date Kim ditched him for the rapper Unique, he is asked if he is okay, he says no he isn't okay and gives the same psychotic look he shows during TheReveal when he is unmasked. Unique and Kim die shortly afterwards.]]

** Near the end of the film, close ups of Chauncey reveal him to be wearing a mask, only if Chauncey's killing people, yet everyone knows who he is, [[spoiler: why would he be wearing a mask in the first place]]?
** If you study Chauncey's gait, you'd see that he has a limp or a shuffling walk, [[spoiler: the killer on the other hand walks normally]].

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* {{Redherring}}:

** [[spoiler: There is also Kim who seems to have a split-personality disorder where she speaks in the voice of her twin sister that died, shades of Ms. Voorhees from ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', but she is killed along with rap star Unique after the [[SexSignalsDeath two had sex.]]]]

** When Lisa learns of Chauncey's first murder, she goes to report him to the police. But the detective there, Raymond Johnson, refuse to detain a young man, who's just been released from prison just because of his past mistakes and on circumstantial evidence, like the victim being slain near Chauncey's residence; he does later start watching Chauncey just in case he is killing people.

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** [[spoiler: There is also Kim who seems to have a spit-personality disorder where she speaks in the voice of her twin sister that died, shades of Ms. Voorhees from ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', but she is killed along with rap star Unique after the [[SexSignalsDeath two had sex.]]]]
* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler: Kim ditches Derrick at prom to have sex with rap star Unique. Then both are murdered by the killer shortly afterwards... who turns out to be Derrick.]]

** When Lisa learns of Chauncey's first murder, she goes to report him to the police. But the detective there, Raymond Johnson, refuse to detain a young man, whose just been released from prison just because of his past mistakes and on circumstantial evidence, like the victim being slain near Chauncey's residence; he does later start watching Chauncey just in case he is killing people.
** Mental illness occurs in "The Hood" too, in areas where it's less likely to be detected. However, the circumstances of the hood can't allow for perceived weakness, such as Kim's split personality disorder or [[spoiler: Derrick's murderous tendencies, known of by his mother who didn't stop it]] which makes it harder for mental illness to be treated for in African Americans.

* EvilWearsBlack: Chauncey is all dressed in black: black hoodie, black jeans, black mask, black leather gloves, [[LastOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers black soul]]. Subverted [[spoiler: when it's revealed that the killer's Derrick.[[DarkIsNotEvil The ''real'' Chauncey is a nice guy]], despite his past and his ill-temperament]]. So nice, he ends up [[spoiler: saving two of the kids who were part of the prank that incarcerated him]].

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Kim ditches Derrick at prom to have sex with rap star Unique. Then both are murdered by the killer shortly afterwards... who turns out to be Derrick.]]

** [[spoiler: There is also Kim who seems to have a spit-personality disorder where she speaks in the voice of her twin sister that died, shades of Ms. Voorhees from ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', but she is killed along with rap star Unique after the [[DeathBySex two had sex.]]]]

* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler: Andre is murdered with a fire-axe]].

* AngryBlackMan: Chauncey Page. Then again, ''you'd'' be pissed too if your life was ruined by a bunch of brats blaming for the death of their friend, despite them tormenting you in the first place, then going to juvie for four years, getting beat up by the inmates, and going home after all that time to your old house, where mother's become a drunk and there's no food in the fridge.

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* AxToGrind: [[spoiler: Andre is murdered with a fire-axe]].

RealityEnsues:

* {{Redherring}}:
** [[spoiler: Chauncey is made to look the killer. He is anti-social with a [[KubrickStare psycho stare]], and visibly angry all the time. There is even a scene where he chokes his drunk mother, but doesn't kill her. Turns out he was once again being framed like in the past by Derrick who is the real killer.]]
** [[spoiler: There is also Kim who seems to have a spit-personality disorder where she speaks in the voice of her twin sister that died, shades of Ms. Voorhees from ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', but she is killed along with rap star Unique after the [[DeathBySex two had sex.]]]]

* EvilWearsBlack: Chauncey is all dressed in black: black hoodie, black jeans, black mask, black leather gloves, [[LastOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOther black soul]]. Subverted [[spoiler: when it's revealed that the killer's Derrick.[[DarkIsNotEvil The ''real'' Chauncey is a nice guy]], despite his past and his ill-temperament]]. So nice, he ends up [[spoiler: saving two of the kids who were part of the prank that incarcerated him]].
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMama: [[spoiler: Derrick has a good relationship with his mother, which makes it more heartbreaking when she begs the police not to search his room when he's arrested]].

** [[spoiler: There is also Kim who seems to have a spit-personality disorder where she speaks in the voice of her twin sister that died, shades of Ms. Voorhees from ''Film/FridayThe13th'', but she is killed along with rap star Unique after the [[DeathBySex two had sex.]]]]

* Good All Along: [[spoiler: By the end, it turns out that Chauncey wasn't the murderer after all. In fact, he ''saves'' Ty and Lisa from the real killer, Derrick]].
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** Chauncey murders [[spoiler: Eazy and Unique]], which doesn't make sense since Chauncey didn't respond to the former's insults to him and never encountered the latter person. Then, you realize the only other person to have any beef with the two people is [[spoiler: Derrick]], who [[spoiler: was antagonized by Eazy when he tried to take Derrick's headphones and would logically be pissed at
Unique for taking Kim, the girl he's crushing on]].

** Lisa and her friends prank Chauncey, a tall, mentally disabled boy, by tricking him into going in a dark, rundown building and chasing him while wearing skull masks. It's no suprise that one of the kids ends up killed.

The story is set in South Central Los Angeles, focusing on a group of friends, Lisa, Ty, Derrick, Andre, Kim, Eddie, and Tiffany, who as kids, played a cruel prank (despite the protest of Lisa) on a mentally disabled boy named Chauncey Page, luring him into an abandoned house and ganging up on him wearing skull masks; this leads to Chauncey accidentally pushing one of the kids' friends, Amandi, off a railing, killing her. Out of fear, they blame everything on Chauncey leading him to get arrested and sent to juvie...

* AxToGrind: [[spoiler: Andre is murdered with a fire-axe]]

* BatterUp: Andre owns a baseball bat as a weapon and whips it out twice to use it against Chauncey, [[spoiler: only Chauncey (really Derrick) takes it from him and beats him to death with it]].

* CarFu: [[spoiler: Derrick is thrown in the path of a car during his fight with Chauncey; he survives and ends up hospitalized]].

%%* EvilWearsBlack: Chauncey is all dressed in black; black hoodie, black jeans, black mask, black leather gloves, [[LastOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOther black soul]]. Subverted [[spoiler: when it's revealed that the killer's Derrick. [[spoiler: [[DarkIsNotEvil The ''real'' Chauncey is a nice guy]], despite his past and temperament. So nice, he ends up saving two pf the kids who were part of the prank that incarcerated him]].
%%EvenEvilHasStandards: ** Chauncey only kills those involved in the accident and anyone who pissed him off. Despite brutally beating a local drug dealer's thugs, he doesn't kill them. He also knocks out Principle Hurd with a chair and leaves him alone as he goes after Ty (he leaves Gina alone after she trips).
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* TheFaceless: Chauncey's black hoodie covers nearly his whole face, however his mouth is seen when he's hiding from Detective Johnson; [[spoiler: Derrick goes the extra mile to use a full, see through mask to hide his face]].
%%* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints that reveal [[spoiler: that Derrick is the real killer]]:** When [[spoiler: Derrick]] opens his closet a small part of [[spoiler: one of the skull masks the kids wore is seen, which is revealed to be part of Derrick's murder shrine]]. ** Perhaps the most obvious hint is when [[spoiler: Derrick is confronted over his grades (he was an A-student and went to a D-student); he is apathetic about his failing grades Closet grades Chauncey victims mask gait

* LimitedWardrobe: Chauncey rarely wears anything other than his hoodie, [[spoiler: making it real easy for someone to frame him for murder

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* AxeToGrind: [[spoiler: Andre is murdered with a fire-axe]]

%%* EvilWearsBlack: Chauncey is all dressed in black; black hoodie, black jeans, black mask, black leather gloves, [[LastOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOther black soul]]; averted [[spoiler: when it's revealed that the killer's Derrick. The ''real'' Chauncey is a nice guy
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* TheFaceless: Chauncey's black hoodie covers nearly his whole face, however his mouth is seen when he's hiding from Detective Johnson; [[spoiler: Derrick goes the extra mile to use a full, see through to hide his face]].
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* NeckSnap: [[spoiler: Eddie and Unique are killed this way by Derrick disguised as Chauncey]]

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* AngryBlackMan: Chauncey Page. Then again, ''you'd'' be pissed too if your life was ruined by a bunch of brats blaming for the death of their friend, despite them tormenting you in the first place, then going to juvie for four years, getting beaten up the inmates, and going home after all that time to your old house, where mother's become a drunk and there's no food in the fridge.

* AsideGlance: [[spoiler: At the end, Chauncey smokes a cigarette then smirks at the audiance]].
* BatterUp: Andre owns a baseball bat as a weapon and whips it out twice to use it against Chauncey, [[spoiler: only for Chauncey (really Derrick) to take it out of his hands and beat him to death with it]].
* BigBad: Chauncey, [[spoiler: At first. Turns out Derrick's the real killer]].

* BrickJoke: Chauncey buys a pack of cigerettes from a convience store; [[spoiler: he smokes one at the end of the movie after seeing Derrick in the hospital through a window]].
* CarFu: [[spoiler: Derrick is thrown in the path of a car during his fight with Chauncey; he lives and end up hospitalized]].

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* AngryBlackMan: Chauncey Page. Then again, ''you'd'' be pissed too if your life was ruined by a bunch of brats, when they made you get blamed for the death of their friend despite them tormenting you in the first place, then going to juvie for four years, where you're beaten by the inmates, and going home after all that time to your old home, where your mother's become a drunk and there's no food in the house.
* AsideGlance: [[spoiler: At the end, Chauncey smokes a cigerette, and smirks at the audiance]].

* ChevoksGun: Gina's gun is used on Lisa. [[spoiler: But its really a water gun filled with cherry Kool-Aid]].
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