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Sugar Hill (1974) 5.6
When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon ... See full summary » Director:Paul MaslanskyWriter:Tim Kelly |
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Diana 'Sugar' Hill
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Morgan
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Celeste
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Valentine
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Mama Maitresse
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Langston
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O'Brien
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George
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King
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Baker
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When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead, for help in gaining a gruesome revenge. In exchange for her soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who thought they were getting away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong. Written by Christopher Chase <cchase@onebox.com>
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Meet SUGAR HILL and her ZOMBIE HIT MEN...The Mafia has never met anything like them! See more »Parents Guide:
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USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
February 1974 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Black Voodoo See more »Filming Locations:
Houston, Texas, USACompany Credits
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Written by Dino Fekaris & Nick Zesses
Sung by The Originals
Available on Motown Records
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The eyes of the Baron Samedi's zombie horde; bear a striking resemblance to those of the Lectroids, featured in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. See more »Goofs
When Sugar is doing her photo shoot, we hear the sound of an auto-winder, but her camera does not have an auto-winder. See more »Quotes
Baron Samedi: Perhaps a drink on the house, sir. My particular special, a drink that I'm famous for... the Zombie!See more »
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Supernatural Voodoo WomanWritten by Dino Fekaris & Nick Zesses
Sung by The Originals
Available on Motown Records
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When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill (Marki Bey), decides to call upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse; Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead, for help in gaining a gruesome revenge.
Whether or not this is a blaxploitation horror film, I have no idea. There is definitely a theme of the black heroine (a poor man's Pam Grier) taking on white crooks. And the police detective has a pretty impressive fro going on. But the line between blaxploitation and a film that just happens to have black stars is a blurry one in the 1970s...
What I do know is that this is a fun picture from Sam Arkoff and AIP. Not particularly scary and never taking itself too seriously, we get about half a dozen people attacked (one at a time) by a zombie horde. And these are real zombies -- the voodoo kind -- not those flesh-eating zombies that have taken over the horror world today.
Not the best film, not the worst, but definitely one that probably gets overlooked too often and is worth a peek for those who are into the voodoo zombies and already saw the bigger name films like "White Zombie" or "Serpent and the Rainbow". I get the impression that this film was an influence on Adam Green's "Hatchet" series, though that may just be my imagination.
Interestingly, despite being made after George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", this film finds its roots more in the racially-inspired zombies of the 1940s and 1950s. Namely "King of the Zombies" (1941), "I Walked With a Zombie" (1943) and "Zombies of Mora Tau" (1957).