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So glad you featured "Blacula"! For a low-budget horror flick, it's surprisingly clever, admirably atmospheric and occasionally even starkly terrifying -- as witness, in the promo film clip, the vamped woman cabbie who suddenly jerks back to reanimation in the city morgue and pursues an investigator down the hall in nightmare-worthy slow motion).

The promo trailer gives additional insight into the film's popularly with young African-American moviegoers. Note how Blacula is lauded as "the black avenger!" while offing white-helmeted members of the Los Angeles Police Department, a force widely accused in those days of repressive racist violence.

And star William Marshall was one of the most accomplished and commanding American stage and screen actors -- black or white -- of the mid-20th century. His memorable roles include a genius scientist in the episode "The Ultimate Computer" of the original Star Trek television series, and an arena fighter in the sword-and-sandal movie epic "Demetrious and the Gladiators."

Definitely worth seeing, especially if you're a serious horror movie fan!


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