#6 - Sugar Hill (1974)
(dir. Paul Maslansky)
When her boyfriend is killed by the mob, Diana "Sugar" Hill turns to the supernatural to get revenge on his murderers. She enlists the help of Baron Samedi, the voodoo spirit of the dead, and together with his army of zombies they kill the criminals one by one. This is a blaxploitation film that sometimes leans more towards action than horror, but it balances the elements well and has some decent scares and creepy moments.
I enjoyed the hell out of this. Like many films of this type from the '70s, it has a great soundtrack and an especially rad theme song called "Supernatural Voodoo Woman" by The Originals (which sadly I can't find on Spotify to add to my Halloween playlist). Marki Bey is great in the lead role, and I'm surprised that she wasn't in more films. Don Pedro Colley as Baron Samedi is wonderful too, ordering his zombies to attack racist old white men with glee. The zombies themselves look fantastic, all covered in cobwebs and soil and with shiny silvery eyes.
This is definitely one of the best films of this type that I've seen, which I suppose isn't saying much as my exposure to blaxploitation horror is very limited. Still, it's a blast and I definitely recommend checking it out.
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