Black as Night (2021) review

During one eventful summer in New Orleans, Shawna (Asjha Cooper) gets bitten by a homeless vampire on her way home from a party, and then sees her own mother Denise (Kenneisha Thompson) jump out of a window (from being chomped on), so her and her friend Pedro (Fabrizio Guido) go looking for whoever is infecting the poor people of the city.  The attempt to connect the horror storyline to not only Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the area but the history of slavery in the region is a little beyond its intellectual capacity (I'm being polite here) ... and naturally it can't resist turning into a sermon about "wokeness" (the comment about white people being 'scary' is off-putting - imagine if the opposite was said in a different movie).  It also shows a lack of creativity with the premise: I haven't seen a spice used as a weapon since I played BurgerTime on the Intellivision.