Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill (1974)

  • 52% of users liked it
    (294 ratings)

In this blaxploitation horror movie, a young woman enlists the aide of a voodoo priest to help her get revenge upon the gangsters who killed her lover. With a few incantations and magical spells, the priest raises an army of zombies. Later the film was cut and shown on TV as The Zombies of Sugar… More

PG,
Directed By
Genres
Action & Adventure, Horror
In Theaters
Feb 1, 1974 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

    Unlikely to scare anybody, but it's a haunted treasure chest's worth of 1970s style, slang and racial provocation. ('I hope they're into white trash,' quips the heroine, feeding a gangster to the hogs.)

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    What's odd about this blaxploitation voodoo horror film is the killer zombies are made the heroes for killing the gangsters.

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  • Ken S


    One of the best blaxplotation movies I've seen yet. When the white Mob kills a lover of the titular Sugar Hill, she does what any woman would do in her situation. Use Voodoo Zombies to extract her pulpy revenge. The only directorial effort by the producer of Raw Meat, Hard Times… More

  • Cassandra M


    Sugar Hill is an entertaining voodoo zombie flick from 1974. A club owner in New Orleans is murdered and his wife Sugar goes to a voodoo woman to conjure up Baron Samedi the voodoo revenger. Sugar and the Baron, and the Baron's zombies, go after the mafia kingpin (same guy who… More

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