Sugar Hill (1974) ***

Following their trend of combining horror and blaxploitation in Blacula (1972) (review) and Scream Blacula Scream (1973) (review), American International Pictures continued to do so in 1974 with Sugar Hill. It's a fairly basic tale of revenge and the cinematography, editing, and acting are nothing spectacular, but it's a fun film with some cool zombies (with some painful-looking contacts), and Sugar (Marki Bey) has sass and class. Plus I got a kick out of Don Pedro Colley maniacally grinning and laughing throughout as the Haitian Vodou loa Baron Samedi.