Sugar Hill

From the same company that produced Blacula (as well as the slew of ’60s beach party movies), Sugar Hill is a similarly campy mix of blaxploitation and ’70s-era horror. The film—not to be confused with the 1994 Wesley Snipes flick of the same name—isn’t too bogged down with plot: Woman’s fiancé gets murdered by the mob; woman trades her soul for command of an undead army to wreak havoc on the gangsters that so wronged her. Vindictive and hell-bent, the Foxy Brown-like Sugar Hill is a female lead that is both damning and resplendently empowering.  

Updated 02/17/2010