Poster for Sugar Hill
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Year
1974
Country
USA
Runtime
91 min
Director
Paul Maslansky
Updated
9 Aug 2026
Obscurity
cult (54/100)
Also known as
Zombies of Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill

Revenge via Haitian zombies. The best of the blaxploitation horror crossovers.

The best of the blaxploitation horror crossovers. After her man is murdered by the mob, a woman raises an army of Haitian zombies, cobweb-covered corpses with silver eyes, to take her revenge one gangster at a time. It is a straight revenge picture using the undead as the weapon.

The zombie design is eerie, the voodoo trappings are treated with more respect than usual, and Marki Bey makes a cool, controlled lead. AIP knew exactly what it was doing pairing these two genres.

Stylish, satisfying, and better than a mash-up has any right to be.

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  • Blaxploitation, 1971 to 1975

    Melvin Van Peebles caught gonorrhea on his own set, filed a workers' comp claim, and bought more film stock with the settlement. Four years later the studios had mined the audience out and moved on.

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