Pluskylang Great Film overall

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

jacobjohntaylor1 This is very scary movie. It is sequel to B.l.a.c.u.l.a And it is awesome. It has great acting. It also has a great story line. It also has great special effects. If you like really scary movies. Then you need to see this movie. B.l.a.c.l.a is resurrected by a voodoo witch Doctor. This is one of the scariest movies ever made. Not a great title but don't judge it by that. This a great movie. Great movie great movie great movie. I so running out of this to say. The only people who would not like this movie are people who do not like horror movies. I people who did not see it and do not like title. William Marshall was a great actor. He know to be scary. This movie is a must see. Great Dracula spin off.

gavin6942 After a dying Voodoo queen, Mama Loa, chooses an adopted apprentice, Lisa Fortier (Pam Grier) as her successor, her arrogant son and true heir, Willis, (Richard Lawson) is outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Mamuwalde the vampire from the former shaman of the voodoo cult, and uses voodoo to resurrect the vampire to do his bidding.This film seems to get a bad rap. In the first Blacula, there was an attempt to make the vampire more refined, more serious and a character who was not just a joke. Some say they did not take the same approach the second time around. Well, I don't agree with that. Having him be knowledgeable in African art seems pretty refined to me.Maybe an army of vampires or a voodoo priestess is a little silly, but this is AIP we are talking about. The point is to have fun, and this movie is fun.

Wizard-8 Although knowledge of the first "Blacula" movie is pretty well widespread, even by those who have never actually watched it, the sequel "Scream Blacula Scream" is mostly unknown even by fans of the first movie. The reason for it is pretty obvious when having watched it: It's not a very good movie. Though the returning William Marshall brings with him the instant charisma he brought to the first movie, his actual performance often comes across like he's phoning it in. And Pam Grier lacks the spunk she brought to the movies where she was the headlining star. I think the lack of enthusiasm by the actors comes from the fact that the script is kind of a mess. For example, it's not made really clear why Blacula was resurrected from the dead, and it remains a mystery what his plans are until near the end of the movie. And the direction by Bob Kelljan lacks the - ahem - bite that was found in the original movie; the horror sequences, for one thing, come across as routine and flat. One of the better scenes in the movie is where Blacula is outraged at the sight of two people of his race pimping out an African-American woman. I think that had the plot gone across more along those lines - a black vampire directly confronting various aspects of modern African-American culture - the end results would have been more interesting.

tavm Having just rewatched Blacula, I've now done the same with Scream Blacula Scream. Once again, William Marshall reprises his character of Prince Mamuwalde who became the feared Blacula. Pam Grier plays Lisa Fortier who becomes the new voodoo priestess after her elderly predecessor dies. The one who thought he should have taken over, Willis Daniels (Richard Lawson), is the one who brings Blacula back to life when he buys a bag of bones from the Ragman (Bernie Hamilton) and performs his own voodoo service. Lynne Moody plays Denny, Willis' girlfriend. Don Mitchell plays Justin Carter, an ex-detective who's with Lisa and who is the one that thinks about the marks on many victims' necks are the work of a vampire which he tells a skeptical Sheriff Harley Dunlap (Michael Conrad). I'll stop there and just say this was almost as effective as Blacula. I did like the way director Bob Kelljan had both the music score and the background music play at the same time at the same volume to provide many chillingly effective scenes. And there was a humorous scene with a couple of pimps (Bob Minor, Al Jones) harassing Mamuwalde that I got a kick out of. So on that note, Scream Blacula Scream gets a recommendation from me. P.S. Many of the supporting cast I cited are probably more well known outside of this movie like Don Mitchell had played Mark Sanger on the TV series "Ironside". Richard Lawson would years later play one of the exorcists whose name is Ryan on Poltergeist. Lynne Moody was the original Jenny Willis on "All in the Family" before Belinda Tolbert replaced her on the spin-off "The Jeffersons". And then there's Michael Conrad who would eventually become Sergeant Phil Esterhaus on "Hill Street Blues" becoming well known for the tagline "Hey, let's be careful out there." And another player, Janee Michelle who played Gloria, is a native of the Seventh Ward of New Orleans which is a two-hour drive from where I now live. Also, she was-in N.O. parlance-a "Creole's Creole".