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Blacula (1972)
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William Marshall, a Shakespearean actor with a rich baritone voice, enriches this otherwise bland blaxploitation vampire film with his strong, seductive performance. He's Manuwalde, a European-educated 18th-century African prince who appeals to the Count Dracula for help in ending the slave trade. Dracula, never known as a great emancipator, puts the bite on Manuwalde's troubles, dubs him "Blacula" (the only time the name is uttered in the film), and imprisons him in a casket. Stirred to life, so to speak, centuries later in Los Angeles by gay antique hunters, he steps into the soulful '70s and splits his energies between feeding his...
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Well, blaxploitation and blood is not really strange, as many of the films of the era glorified the spilling of blood. However, this film is different in that it really pointed out the excesses of the era.
William Marshall played Mamuwalde/Blacula as a proud Black man who was thrust into a world of sex and alcohol and...
(complete Blacula review by The Movie Addict)
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(10/26/2008)