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You won't be disappointed!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

That was an excellent one.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

1974's "Sugar Hill" marked the end of Robert Quarry's brief horror stardom beginning with 1970's "Count Yorga Vampire" (a total of 6 features), although he worked continuously in smaller roles in lower budgeted films. In the early 70's, AIP maintained its policy of old fashioned horror, all PG titles, even after the departure of James H. Nicholson, the ideas man, leaving Samuel Z. Arkoff, the financier and distributor, alone in charge. The 2 Count Yorga films were profitable, as were the Blaculas, and other black-themed takes on familiar subjects arrived, like this one here, plucked from obscurity (like "The House on Skull Mountain") by recent showings on Turner Classic Movies. Zombies and voodoo no longer go together in this age of flesh eating Romero copies, but provide all the intrigue in a script filled with clichéd characters and dialogue. Marki Bey stars in the title role, turning to voodoo to avenge the beating death of her fiancée by the hired goons of crime boss Morgan (Quarry), complete with Southern accent and horny moll (Betty Anne Rees, a prior victim in 1972's "Deathmaster"). Betty and Marki even engage in a catfight, ala Pam Grier, a nice touch considering neither would continue acting much longer. Richard Lawson ("Scream Blacula Scream") pads out the running time in a dead end investigation that fails to stop the bloodless carnage carried out by the walking dead, ancestral slaves still in shackles, lifeless eyes covered in creepy webs. Easily the real standout is Don Pedro Colley, a far cry from his restrained performance in 1970's "Beneath the Planet of the Apes," playing the role of Baron Samedi, leader of the dead, a part essayed one year before by Geoffrey Holder in the James Bond thriller "Live and Let Die." Among the supporting cast, the lone familiar face is top henchman Charles Robinson, who appeared in ROOTS:THE NEXT GENERATIONS, before landing a co-starring role on NIGHT COURT. Director Paul M. Maslansky was no stranger to horror, having first worked with Michael Reeves and Christopher Lee on 1964's "The Castle of the Living Dead," mostly as a producer. AIP continued to have hits for the remainder of the 70's ("The Food of the Gods," "The Amityville Horror"), but never really latched on to the genre's changes escalated by "The Exorcist," and by 1980, Sam Arkoff had sold out, the company renamed Filmways, continuing to churn out hits ("Dressed to Kill"). By that time, the blaxploitation era was already long gone, waiting to be rediscovered.

Southern Crimelord, who doesn't take no for an answer, Morgan(Robert Quarry)desires the popular club of a black businessman, Langston(Larry D Johnson)who wouldn't sell and is beaten to death by his thugs. Diana "Sugar" Hill, who was his fiancé, vows revenge and gets help from Voodoo Priestess Mama Maitresse(Zara Cully)and the summoned spirit of Baron Samedi(Don Pedro Colley). Samedi offers to assist Sugar on one condition, that she gives her soul to him. Sugar, whose love for Langston provides a burning, thriving hate for those who murdered him, accepts. The rest of the film shows how Samedi, and his undead zombies, eliminate Morgan's men. Morgan still persists in buying the club from Sugar but has no idea that she has much more in store for him. Meanwhile, detective Valentine(Richard Lawson), once a boyfriend of Sugar's, begins to find a scent leading towards Sugar regarding the ritualistic ways Morgan's men are found murdered.Tame blaxploitation revenge voodoo horror flick, has lots of attitude and colorful characters. I really enjoyed Colley's outrageous Baron Samedi with his demented eyes, plated teeth displaying a wicked grin enjoying "playtime" with his victims, and giant top hat. Quite a flashy character, played to the hilt with gusto. I couldn't get enough of him..a real hoot. He's always present when Morgan's men are about to meet their impending doom. Marki Bey, as Sugar, is tough-talking, foxy and fine..a representative of the Pam Grier model. You mess with her and there's hell to pay, that's for sure. Bey has an authority to her and I think that's an essential ingredient in a film such as this. Nothing wimpy about this chick, and she doesn't cower to nobody. Quarry is terrific as her arch nemesis...a real, slimy, racist bastard who treats the men under him like cattle. Betty Anne Rees is Celeste, Morgan's mistreated lover. Despite how he pushes her around, talking down to her as if she were swine, Celeste isn't a sympathetic character. Nope, she a rude, crude smart-Aleck, who is just as racist as the one she pampers. I loved Celeste's reactions towards Morgan's attractions to Sugar. There's even an amusing little fight between Sugar and Celeste for our enjoyment..guess who wins this skirmish? Cully is also quite a memorable character as Mama Maitresse, a voodoo queen you don't want as an enemy. Along with Samedi and Maitresse, Morgan never has a prayer. And, those zombies..aren't they a creepy brood! Covered head to toe in cob-webs, with pale skin, eyes of silver, and long hideous finger nails, these zombies are often photographed coming directly towards the screen..quite an eerie sight. If you are not a demanding viewer, accepting that "Sugar Hill" is simply a film about supernatural revenge, then there's fun to be had. The murders, quite imaginatively set-up and executed with tongue-firmly-in-cheek, aren't graphic, but seeing Morgan and his men squirming and pleading for their lives as Samedi and Sugar smile with glee, is grand. The title song, Supernatural Voodoo Woman, is out of sight, baby!

Sugar Hill is an entertaining voodoo zombie flick from 1974. A club owner in New Orleans is murdered and his wife Sugar goes to a voodoo woman to conjure up Baron Samedi the voodoo revenger. Sugar and the Baron, and the Baron's zombies, go after the mafia kingpin (same guy who played Count Yorga, Vampire) and his henchmen on a bloody trail of voodoo revenge. The Baron even poses as a taxi driver to lure an unsuspecting victim to his fate. Where did Baron Samedi learn to drive a car in the kingdom of the dead? Just wondering.I am a huge horror movie fan. I have seen a lot of zombie movies and a lot of movies like Blacula. I liked Blacula and I liked Sugar Hill also. They are both more like comedy than horror. But that is what the film makers intended I'm sure. Over-the-top craziness. There is very little gore in his movie so the makers were not going for shock value. They did a good job creating interesting and colorful characters as the protagonists and antagonists. The zombies are well-done, unique, and very creepy-looking. This movie is just a lot of fun. Recommended.

Let me first say that I'm a 19-year-old white boy who loves the 70's and Blaxploitation films. So when I saw "Sugar Hill" on Showtime one day I was hooked! While not the best movie to come out of that time it is sure a fun ride! The film starts off with the rather beautiful Diana "Sugar" Hill in her boyfriend Langston's nightclub called "Club Haiti." After a few minutes he is attacked and killed, and Sugar wants revenge! She goes to a voodoo priestess named "Mama Maitresse" who raises her greatest voodoo god, Baron Samedi (who is a "great lover" no less according to Mama Maitresse.) Sugar asks the Baron for help and he calls on his army of the living dead to aid her. Then one by one the men who killed Langston are tracked down including a henchman named "Fabulous" (Got to love that name!) and they are killed in different colorful ways, like being thrown to hungry pigs "Hope they like white trash" Sugar says with anger in her eyes. In the end what you get is a cheesy fun film with Sugar, who is not a Foxy Brown, but a cool character in her own way.