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4. Fair review

I finished it last night and am glad I watched it. Interesting mix of supernatural horror and 'realistic' horror--meaning the interactions between the new and old families. I don't think the racial atrocities were over the top. I totally believe things like that happened. What I think was probably exaggerated was having the whole block participating at once. Of course there are mobs, but I think in a neighborhood it would be a lot more subtle.

I lived the first 10 years of my life in So Central LA, 1950-60. I do remember when the first Black family moved onto our street and when my family moved we were the last white family to leave. I don't remember any kind of overt things like in this movie, but there had to be unhappy white people because they all moved away by 1960. I wasn't really old enough to catch on if there were any subtle racial problems going on, I guess. I liked it that my (Catholic) grade school was a real mix of races, cultures etc. The kids I went to school with were Panamanian, German, Portuguese, Mexican, etc.