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Information
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 91 min.
- Director
- Paul Maslansky
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Horror
- Rating *
- 5.7
- Votes *
- 1,095
- Checks
- 197
- Favs
- 8
- Dislikes
- 3
- Favs/checks
- 4.1% (1:25)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
At the crossroads between blaxploitation and horror is Sugar Hill, whose eponymous heroine calls on the powers of voodoo to avenge her man killed by mobsters. Mostly likeable, it's a thing of parts. Marki Bey is as sexy and badass as any of the genre's heroines, dressing up in immaculate white to gloat at each murder as if to dare the police to find a speck of blood on her person. The silver-eyed, cobwebbed zombies look really cool, and aren't the only way the villains buy it. The funk score is fun and its title song worthy. On the flip side, the effects are frequently cheesy, none less so than voodoo god/murder assistant Baron Samedi's introductory scene (he's more effective in urban settings as a ubiquitous grinning ghoul), and the movie goes out of a moment of bad taste. Still, Sugar Hill is kept alive by its unusual premise, and certainly by its star's smooth, magnetic performance slapping down pimps and bitches satisfyingly. Though I wish she'd had a longer acting career, something tickles me in the fact she went on to run Murder Mystery Cruises with her husband. 4 years 6 months ago