Ghost stories aren’t always frightening faces in windows or doors slamming closed by themselves; sometimes it’s only the idea of a ghost that elicits terror. That kind of ambiguity is what drives Mariama Diallo‘s debut film Master, where Regina Hall plays Gail Bishop, the first Black “master” or dean at an elite New England university. As Gail struggles to navigate the politics of the mostly white staff and faculty, a freshman student, Jasmine (Zoe Renee), also faces countless microaggressions from the school – and begins to believe that a ghost is haunting her dorm room. The supernatural horrors aren’t necessarily at the front and center of Master, but the deeply uncomfortable interactions Jasmine and Gail have with their peers are guaranteed to make you squirm, especially since the movie draws inspiration from a very real and very shocking case of extreme cultural appropriation.
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