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Sugar Hill
AKA
The Zombies of Sugar Hill, Voodoo Girl



 

Released: 1974
Original Language: English / Italian
Director: Paul Maslansky
US Certification: PG
UK Certification: 15
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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.