SUGAR HILL is another blaxploitation horror flick from AIP, made in 1974 and following on the success of BLACULA et al. This one features Count Yorga himself, Robert Quarry, in a supporting bad guy performance. The thrust of the plot sees a woman willing revenge on the gangsters who murdered her boyfriend; she turns to the dark arts of voodoo and before long a gang of silver-eyed zombies are on the rampage and committing murder all over the shop. This is a surprisingly tense and atmospheric little production, sadly all but forgotten for modern viewers. The old-fashioned zombies look fantastically creepy and the film offers murderous mayhem with vivid regularity, keeping it watchable throughout.
Review of Sugar Hill
