The Star Late Edition

Expect true mayhem, Madea-style, this Halloween

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Black Woman. That film sparked a multimilli­on dollar franchise and establishe­d Perry as the founder of an entertainm­ent empire.

Madea subsequent­ly went to jail, survived a family reunion, celebrated Christmas and much more in a series of films.

Apparently, Perry didn’t plan on doing a Halloween film, but Chris Rock made a joke in Top Five, about a movie called Boo! A Madea Halloween, and apparently that was enough to get this one green-lit. Boo! A Madea Halloween (opens today) again stars Perry as Madea, Joe and Brian.

The film begins with Brian leaving his rebellious 17-year-old daughter Tiffany (Diamond White) alone on Halloween. Brian enlists his Aunt Madea, Uncle Joe, and friends Hattie (Patrice Lovely) and pot-smoking Aunt Bam (Cassie Davis) to keep an eye on her. Tiffany is determined to meet her girlfriend­s at a frat party though, so she tricks her four chaperones with a realistic ghost story that keeps them in their rooms and she sneaks out.

All hell and hilarity break out when Madea, Hattie and Aunt Bam crash the party to bring home their baby girl.

Perry cast several social-media stars as the frat brothers, like YouTube star, Yousef Erakat as the fraternity president and party boy, Honathan, or Instagram star, Brock O’Hurn, who plays toga-wearing frat boy, Horse.

The scary comedy features a lot of improv from not only Perry, but also the rest of the cast who took their cue from him, when they weren’t corpsing. –

Film Writer The film is 103 minutes long and has a 10-12 PG age restrictio­n.

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