Blacula
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Movie Reviews of Blacula
Movie Review: This Vampire's Riding the Soul Train
Summary: 4 Stars
Blacula has some very low budget special effects and a few somewhat scary scenes. It also has some hysterical dialogue, funky costumes, groovy funkadelic 70's background music and a disco club scene that could pass itself off as a Soul Train episode. Those into campy, "B" horror movies, should check this flick out.
Blacula is a retro classic that makes a few "offcolor" sociocultural comments and is sure to give you a few good laughs.
Movie Review: william marshall make "blacula" better than it should be.
Summary: 4 Stars
this blaxplotion horror movie gets it's power and charm from william marshall's forceful job as an african prince bitten by dracula and later brought back to life in 1970's watts. the story gets silly in spots but just as it is about to fold under it's own weight,marshall pulls it back and makes a 2 star movie into a 4 star tour de force. the fact that hollywood never really gave this great actor better roles is the shame of the movie world.Movie Review: William Marshall carried this movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Most of the other people on this said it already. I only wanted to add one more piece.
William Marshall carried this movie. He showed Blacula to be a torn beast. He hated who he was but was trapped by it by the white man. That was the moral of the story. Black people can never be themselves because the white man cursed them to be just like them. William Marshall's genius showed that.
Movie Review: Through The Black Of Night, I Gotta Go Where You Are
Summary: 3 Stars
Nothing like being prone to nostalgia!
This fun campy piece came right between Kent State and Nixon's re-election, and remains one of the most amusing entries in exploitation cinema.
The whole affair would be wasted but for the splendid performance of Shakespearean trained actor William Marshall, who brought a dignity to a film that would have been otherwise doomed to pure silliness. Through his efforts, "Blacula," which, under the perennial reign of Samuel Z. Arkoff, was lifted to a quality purely based on the strengths of one individual.
It must be remembered that "black rights" were not exactly warmly received back then. We as a nation were hot off the heels of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and some other general socio/political/economic upheavals that were very unwelcome by the powers that be.
This film was daring not only in the "blaxploitation" sense, but also in its depiction of homosexuality, still then a very much "taboo" subject...
Horror films have always been fertile ground for the "taboo," and this little film is no exception. It has it's flaws, to be sure, but, for a low budget production, it holds its own.
And, on 1970's television, it was a bit creepy!
Great fun throughout.
Movie Review: It Was Alright
Summary: 3 Stars
I certainly wasn't scared. This movie was so cheesy, it was funny. So at least I had a good laugh. William Marshall was a great actor and it's a shame you don't see many actors like him around anywmore.