horror/blaxploitation recommendations?

[ToyMan]

i really dug jd's revenge, petey wheatstraw, and blacula. i've heard good things about abby, scream blacula scream, and the clips for blackenstein looks great. can you folks suggest any other campy blaxsploitation/horror flicks that i've failed to pick up on?

[Cthulhu]

Maybe you'll like Abby http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071095/
It's an exorcist rip-off. I haven't seen it, but I heard it's good.

[ToyMan]

yep, that was on the list, but i futzed up the bbcode.

[lester1/2jr]

don't see ganja and hess.  it's really bad

[Nukie 2]

Black Gestapo is definately worth a viewing!
You shoulsd be able to get it for relatively cheap.

[Rev. Powell]

BLACK SHAMPOO is one of the crazier ones I've seen.  How many blaxploitation films have a hairdresser as their ultra-macho hero?  Lots of nudity and insane violence, too.  Watch out for the pool cue!

Didn't really like ABBY or SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM, but BLACKENSTEIN's really, really bad and therefore worth a viewing.

[ToyMan]

Black Gestapo is definately worth a viewing!
You shoulsd be able to get it for relatively cheap.

d'oh. forgot to mention that one. it's not really a horror flick, though. i mean, sure, a dude gets his johnson snipped off, but it doesn't have devils, vampires, zombies, or anything like that in it. i'd call it blaxploitation/nazisploitation.

[Raffine]

SON OF INGAGI (1940) The first blaxploitation horror film; made thirty years before the genre even existed! During the 30s and 40s many westerns, musicals, and dramas were made with all black cast for theaters in black neighborhoods, but this is a rare example of a horror film made for that audience.

A mad scientist (the scientist is a woman!) keeps a wild apeman named N'Gina in her basement. After the scientist dies a young woman and her husband inherit her mansion, and naturally, N'Gina break loose to terrorize the cast.

Is THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (1973) considered a blaxploitation horror film? Scientists cut off racist Ray Milland's head and sew it on to Rosie Grier's body, but they don't bother to cut off Rosie's head first. When Rosie's girlfriend gets a load of her two-headed honey she asks "Have you got two of anything else?" Watching Grier deliver a knockout punch to his own puss is a highlight.

THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN (1974) is a blaxploitation riff on the "old Dark House' genre set in a Gothic mansion located in the mountains outside of Atlanta, GA. ( ). Someone is killing off the relatives gathered for the reading of an elderly woman's will. Victor French is the token white guy and Mike Evans from The Jeffersons is in it, too.

And then there's the truly bizarre VOODOO BLACK EXORCIST (1973) which is actually a Spanish-made FAKE Blaxploitation movie about a vengeful mummy (THE BLUMMY?). Several of the 'black' characters are white Spaniards in black-face.

[Nukie 2]

Black Gestapo is definately worth a viewing!
You shoulsd be able to get it for relatively cheap.

d'oh. forgot to mention that one. it's not really a horror flick, though. i mean, sure, a dude gets his johnson snipped off, but it doesn't have devils, vampires, zombies, or anything like that in it. i'd call it blaxploitation/nazisploitation.

Ah do whaddah wawnt.

Weird movie though. Hard to think the US Government would fund something in the ghetto called "The Peoples Army".

[Rev. Powell]

Oops, I missed that you were only looking for black/horror combinations.  BLACK SHAMPOO is not a horror film, though it's still worthwhile.

Maybe J.D.'S REVENGE ("He came back from the dead to possess a man's soul, make love to his woman, and get the Vengeance he craved!"), which I haven't seen.  There's also DEF BY TEMPTATION (1990), which is actually supposed to be pretty good but won't have that 70s vibe, if that's what you're looking for.

[ToyMan]

i actually liked jd's revenge a lot, just because it was so over-the-top in parts.

yeah, i'm most interested in 70's-era stuff. thanks for all the suggestions, though.

[sideorderofninjas]

Sugar Hill, a woman's boyfriend is killed by the local crooks and she relies on voodoo to get her revenge..

[zombie no.one]

BLACK SHAMPOO is one of the crazier ones I've seen.  How many blaxploitation films have a hairdresser as their ultra-macho hero?  Lots of nudity and insane violence, too.  Watch out for the pool cue!

yes... I'm sold. 

:edit - just ordered it off amazon, lol

[bladerunnerblues]

The Blunchblack of Blotre Blame

[lester1/2jr]

black shampoo is absolutely the most inept movie ever made.  I loved it