We’re Getting A ‘Karen’ Horror Movie About A Woman Who Wants Her Black Neighbours To Move

Karen is coming to the big-screen: a horror film about the ubiquitous, demanding white woman trope is in the works, and the casting’s pretty perfect, too.

Written and directed by Coke Daniels, Karen will focus on “a racist, entitled white woman in the South who terrorizes her new African-American neighbors” — and who better to play Karen than Taryn Manning, most famous for her role as Pennsatucky on  Orange Is The New Black?

Pennsatucky was more of an overt white supremacist than your typical Karen, but it sounds like things will be taken up a notch in the film to make the more insidious and covert racism really shine through.

According to TMZ, who spoke to Daniels, Karen’s neighbours are Black Lives Matter supporters, and she will use any means necessary to see them leave her street.

In addition to Pennsatucky, Manning has a bit more Karen-adjacent experience: back in June, she posted a conspiracy-riddled Instagram in support of Trump.

Of course, the question at hand is whether Karen is worth getting excited about, or just a blatant attempt to jump on a cultural conversation for clout without adding anything meaningful. Daniels isn’t exactly the most revered director — his CV is mostly low-rent comedies and rom-coms — but that’s not to say this couldn’t be great.

Time will tell. Karen is slated for a 2021 release, and for now, we just have a teaser poster to go off. Find it below.