Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill (1974)

Meet Sugar Hill and her zombie hitmen... The mafia has never met anything like them!

When a nightclub owner is murdered by gangsters after refusing to sell his business to the mob boss, his grieving fiancé enlists the help of a voodoo priestess to avenge his death.

Date of release
1974-02-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (63)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Crime, Action, Horror
Director
Paul Maslansky

Casting

Interesting facts

Sugar Hill is a 1974 American blaxploitation horror film, directed by Paul Maslansky and starring Marki Bey as the title character who uses voodoo to get revenge on the people responsible for her boyfriend's death. It was released by American International Pictures. According to the film, the zombies are the preserved bodies of slaves brought to the United States from Guinea. AIP had previously combined the horror and blaxploitation genres with Blacula (1972) and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream (1973).

Production

The film, budgeted at $350,000, was shot on location in Houston at such locations as the Heights branch of the Houston Public Library (a historical landmark), used in the film as a "Voodoo Institute". Sugar Hill was the last film Quarry did for AIP, after a run that included the Count Yorga films. Also appearing in the film was Cully, who played Mother Jefferson on the TV show The Jeffersons. Charles P.

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