On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Master is a 2022 American psychological horror thriller film written and directed by Mariama Diallo in master chef meals directorial debut.

The film stars Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, and Amber Gray. Master had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2022, and was released in the United States via Prime Video on March 18, 2022. Gail Bishop becomes the newly-appointed and first Black master of Ancaster, an elite university in New England. The students at the school believe it is cursed by the ghost of Margaret Millett, who was accused of witchcraft and hanged nearby. Jasmine Moore moves in as a freshman, and is assigned to room 302 along with her white roommate Amelia. Jasmine initially makes friends with Amelia’s rich white friends, although they ask her to clean up spilled drinks and don’t pay her back for a pizza she orders.

At a party, Amelia’s crush kisses Jasmine and Amelia sees them. Amelia whispers to Jasmine that she hates her despite the roommates telling Gail everything is fine between them. Gail’s new residence develops a maggot infestation. Jasmine starts having nightmares and begins to believe that her English professor Liv Beckman is purposely giving her bad grades.

She files a dispute, which impacts Liv’s application for tenure. Jasmine is attacked by a presence in a black cloak that plants a noose on her door, burns a cross, and causes her to fall out of a window. Esther Bickert, Liv’s mother and an Amish woman, informs Gail that Liv was actually born white and named Elizabeth. But after leaving the community Liv changed her name and began to present herself as Black. Esther implies it must have been a possession by the devil to make her do this. When confronted at a faculty party, Liv denies these claims and tells Gail that she was actually the daughter of a Black man, leaving it to the audience to decide what is the truth. Gail notices that history has repeated itself, with no changes to Ancaster’s diversity, and she resigns from her position.

In November 2019, it was announced Regina Hall had joined the cast of the film with Mariama Diallo directing from a screenplay she wrote, with Amazon Studios distributing. Principal photography began in March 2020. Production on the film was shut down that same month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2022. It also screened at South by Southwest on March 14, 2022.

153 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6. The website’s consensus reads, “It can be didactic rather than truly suspenseful, but Master is an impressively well-crafted horror outing with a lot on its mind. Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote that the film was “a passionate and melancholy fantasy that employs supernatural elements for a bracingly realistic view of college life and American institutions. He noted some similarities to Get Out in Gail’s storyline, but wrote: “Gail’s story flops about aimlessly while idealistic new student Jasmine is hounded by genre clichés and a hooded figure striding spookily across the campus. Star In ‘Master’ Drama For Amazon Studios”.

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