AKA The Zombies of Sugar Hill, Voodoo Girl



1974, Directed by Paul Maslansky

A blaxploitation film with zombies? You betcha. As long as you count people with half a ping-pong ball stuck to each eye as zombies, of course.

The ‘avenging angel’ is a mainstay of seventies grindhouse cinema plots, and Sugar Hill and her Amazingly Variable Haircut seems to offer an interesting twist to it. Grinning zombies, a pretty lady and buckets of blood - what more could you ask for? I’ll bet good money that Quentin Tarantino has seen this film at least five times.

I was a little disappointed in the lacklustre efforts of the mafia - The kicking they give Sugar’s man looks really half-arsed. I think rather than amassing an army of the undead, Sugar could have seen them all off with a big stick.

Favourite bit: Near the end when a zombie pops up from the bottom of the screen, like it’s been sitting in a giant toaster.

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