Blacula (aka Give Skillet a Cape) with Aaron Amos, Shawn Pryor, Alicia Whitley
- Author
- Jeremy Whitley
- Published
- Fri 04 Feb 2022
- Episode Link
- https://share.transistor.fm/s/fb5fd6b6
Scare Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings: Homophobia, racism, bury your gays, several homophobic slurs, the n-word (though used entirely by people in the community), blood and gore, potential gaslighting or hypnotism (unclear), one racist ass Dracula
It's time to talk about the original black horror movie about the man himself, Mamuwalde aka Blacula! An African Prince appeals to Count Dracula to stop the slave trade and Dracula rewards him by attempting enslave his wife, turning into a vampire, and locking him in a coffin for a few hundred years. And that's all in the first five minutes!
- The Basics
- Director: William Crain
- Writers: Joan Torres, Raymond Koenig
- Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas
- What’s it about?
- IMDB says: An ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles.
- This month we’re focusing on horror films with black directors and as far as it goes, this is the classic. William Crain was directing this movie when there weren’t many black directors making movies and certainly not ones that look like this. What’s everybody’s history with this movie?
- Recommendations
- Aaron - The Wiz
- Shawn - JD's Revenge
- Alicia - A Vampire in Brooklyn
- Emily- Candyman
- Ben - Dolemite is My Name
- Jeremy - Bones
Follow our guests
Aaron Amos
Twitter: @aaronjamos
Shawn Pryor
Twitter: @shawnrpryor
Shawnpryor.com
Alicia Whitley
Twitter: @aliciawhitley
Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod
Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth
Emily's Website: Megamoth.net
Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn
Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule.
Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com
RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/progressively-horrified
Website: https://progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm/
Join our Patreon at: patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified to support the show, get bonus episodes, early access to upcoming episodes, and a cool Progressively Horrified t-shirt.
Come back next week!
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Sign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
