Sugar Hill is a fairly well-known blaxpolitation flick which came out during the height of the blaxploitation era, the 1970s. I looked to see if, but could not confirm that, the Sugar Hill Gang took their name from this movie. At any rate, it features Voodoo and zombies and is, at its heart, just another revenge flick. Revenge flicks were basically all the rage back in the '70s.
Sugar Hill rises above some of the other fare in its category due to the quality of the acting but has little else going for it. The zombies are actually some of the most frightening-looking undead ever filmed, though. Still, the death scenes are sans gore and none too harrowing for viewers. There is one clever scene which features a scarecrow but that's about as creepy as Sugar Hill ever gets.
Recommended just for completeness' sake. It's not a bad show but you aren't likely to get too much out of it.
© C Harris Lynn, 2012
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