SUGAR HILL (1973). Still another AIP Blaxploitation flick about the title character-Marki Bey who reminds me a lot of Pam Grier in here; maybe the script was written with her in mind-avenging her boyfriend's death by gangster Robert Quarry (Count Yorga himself) with the help of some voodoo. Pretty silly, with extremely loud clothes and non PC epithets, but the zombies in here are actually pretty scary and give the film an edge. The scariest part of the whole film is Zara Cully-Mother Jefferson from THE JEFFERSON'S- as a High Priestess...the mind boggles!!!!!!!!!! ***
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