In 1780, the African Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) and his beloved wife Luva (Vonetta McGee) meet Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) at his castle in Transylvania to request his support to suppress the slave trade. However, Dracula offends Mamuwalde and Luva and turns the prince into a vampire, cursing him with the name Blacula. Then he imprisons Blacula in a coffin in a chamber and leaves Luva also inside to die.
In 1972, the gays decorators Bobby McCoy (Ted Harris) and Billy Schaffer (Rick Metzler) travel to Transylvania to buy some antiques, including Blacula's coffin, and ships the goods to Los Angeles. When they open the casket, they are attacked by Blacula, who is thirsty to drink blood. Soon Blacula sees Tina, who is a double of Luva, at the funeral home where will be the wake of Bobby McCoy and believes she is Luva's reincarnation. Blakula meets Tina at a night-club, where she is celebrating the anniversary of her sister Michelle (Denise Nicholas) with her husband Dr. Gordon Thomas (Thalmus Rasulala). Dr. Thomas is a pathologist of LAPD that believes the last deaths in L.A. is caused by a vampire and is seeking evidence to prove to his colleague Lt. Jack Peters (Gordon Pinsent) that the fiend does exist.
"Blacula" is a Blaxploitation horror film with funny and silly moments. Blacula, for example, is from Africa in the Eighteenth Century and fully updated to the lifestyle in the Twentieth Century in Los Angeles. The lamps look like Molotov cocktails, blowing up in the vampires and bursting into flames. One good thing is that the film is not politically correct and calls the gay decorators of a common slang in the 70´s. Another funny moment6 is Blacula ordering a Bloody Mary to the nigh-club waitress. In the end, "Blacula" is a worthwhile entertainment. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Blacula, O Vampiro Negro" ("Blacula, The Black Vampire")
In 1972, the gays decorators Bobby McCoy (Ted Harris) and Billy Schaffer (Rick Metzler) travel to Transylvania to buy some antiques, including Blacula's coffin, and ships the goods to Los Angeles. When they open the casket, they are attacked by Blacula, who is thirsty to drink blood. Soon Blacula sees Tina, who is a double of Luva, at the funeral home where will be the wake of Bobby McCoy and believes she is Luva's reincarnation. Blakula meets Tina at a night-club, where she is celebrating the anniversary of her sister Michelle (Denise Nicholas) with her husband Dr. Gordon Thomas (Thalmus Rasulala). Dr. Thomas is a pathologist of LAPD that believes the last deaths in L.A. is caused by a vampire and is seeking evidence to prove to his colleague Lt. Jack Peters (Gordon Pinsent) that the fiend does exist.
"Blacula" is a Blaxploitation horror film with funny and silly moments. Blacula, for example, is from Africa in the Eighteenth Century and fully updated to the lifestyle in the Twentieth Century in Los Angeles. The lamps look like Molotov cocktails, blowing up in the vampires and bursting into flames. One good thing is that the film is not politically correct and calls the gay decorators of a common slang in the 70´s. Another funny moment6 is Blacula ordering a Bloody Mary to the nigh-club waitress. In the end, "Blacula" is a worthwhile entertainment. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Blacula, O Vampiro Negro" ("Blacula, The Black Vampire")