Sunday, October 26, 2025

Sugar Hill (1974)

When ruthless businessmen knock off a night club owner, his girl (Marki Bey) turns to voodoo for revenge.

Charles Robinson plays Fabulous, one of the top honkey’s top henchmen. He is better known (to me anyhow) as Mac from Night Court. He passed in 2021, 27 days before Markie Post. Only Dan Fielding and Roz are left.

Bey appeared in a handful of low budget films before doing a handful of TV appearances. She called it quits in her early thirties. She is pretty enough, but she lacks that Pam Grier charisma. Also, her character lacks agency. She is present for many of the kills but serves merely as bait. She doesn't even summon the zombies. She turns to Mama Maitresse for that.

Sugar Hill is a by-the-numbers blaxploitation revenge film with the added benefit of zombie mayhem. This film could have been just a series of revenge killings of the ruthless thugs, and it is. Unlike Kuroneko, the only questions are who will the zombies kill next, and how. But like the previous film, the undead are the good guys. AMRU 2.5.

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