Sugar Hill
Sugar Hill is a 1974 film from the USA, directed by Paul Maslansky, running 87 minutes. reelscum files it under blaxploitation and zombie.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Director
- Paul Maslansky
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (54/100)
- Also known as
- Zombies of Sugar Hill
Defined in the glossary: Blaxploitation, Zombie
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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Written about
- 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.
The cycle in depth
- Gut-munchers: the Italian zombie boom, 1979 to 1983
There was no first one. Argento recut Romero, Fulci forged the sequel, and Italy spent four years feeding the British censors.
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