Title: Alabama's Ghost
Year: 1973
Genre(s): Horror, Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 96 Min
Directed By: Fredric Hobbs
Audio/Picture Quality: B

A novice magician learns the tricks of a deceased master magician, and becomes the new superstar of hocus-pocus. Soon a wide assortment of weirdoes, including mad Nazi scientists, cannibals, witch doctors, and transvestite grandmothers, are after his newly acquired secret

Title: Bad Bunch
Year: 1976
Genre(s): Action, Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 82 Min.
Directed By: Greydon Clark
Audio/Picture Quality: B

They're cool, free and wild . . . and they own the streets! A white veteran goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his black Army buddy who died in Vietnam. He encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.

Title: Black Devil Doll From Hell
Year: 1984
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 70 Min
Directed By: Harry Rasky
Audio/Picture Quality: C

I can't remember when I laughed so damned hard in my life! There are some legitimate comedies that haven't tickled me this much, definitely a "So-Bad-It's-Good" classic. The story concerns one Shirley Black (Shirley L. Jones), a deeply religious woman who stops at a thrift shop and buys a doll that looks a lot like Webster with French braids. The woman running the store tells Shirley that the doll was the property of an East Indian gentleman with strange powers (although the doll has a West Indian hairstyle, but, never mind) and that it always returns to the store under its own power. Hearing that should put anyone off of purchasing the doll, but not our intrepid and spiritual Shirley (so brave and righteous is she that she preaches to men trying to sell her stolen merchandise on the street). She buys it and even tells it "You'll be the only man to see me naked other than my husband" before taking a shower. She then has visions of being attacked by the doll. Once again, anyone else would be getting rid of the doll at this point. But Shirley hangs on to it. The next day, it jumps out of a closet and knocks her unconscious. It then ties her to the bed and has its way with her before running back to the thrift shop. Shirley is then sent into a downward spiral of sexual degradation as she looks for the thrill that her "little woodenheaded bastard" has given her with mere mortal men. Let's face it, once you've gotten it on with a doll that looks like a cross between "Lester" of Willie Tyler & Lester fame and Stevie Wonder on the HOTTER THAN JULY album cover, well, no flesh and blood piece will do (Meshach Taylor's line from MANNEQUIN comes to mind: "I would never interrupt you while you were getting a piece of wood."). Other people I know who have seen BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL have also had the same reaction: Utter hilarity! Especially at the Mr. T-sounding voice of the doll. No original copies are known to exist of this movie, plus it was shot on an extremly low budget with inferior equipment, so the quality isn't the greatest but I have a feeling it's not going to get much better then this...

Title: Black Fist
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 88 Min.
Directed By: Timothy Galfas
Audio/Picture Quality: B

 Classic 70s Blacksploitation You Know Where He's Comin' From! The Big Bad Black Dude of the Streets... He'll bust you up, slam you down and blast you into pieces! To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.

Title: Black Samson
Year: 1974
Genre(s): Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 98 Min.
Directed By: Charles Bail
Audio/Picture Quality: B

 Classic 70s Blacksploitation. White Director/Stuntman Chuck Bail directed this forgotten Warner Bros. film that features Rockne Tarkington (well-known for starring on 70's kid show BANANA SPLITS: DANGER ISLAND) as Samson, a nightclub owner (who owns a lion) who doesn't want any drugs on his neighborhood.

Title: Boss
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Action, Blacksploitation
Country: "USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 87 Min
Directed By: Jack Arnold
Audio/Picture Quality: B

Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk. They raise hell, chase women, and milk the locals for cash, while waiting for the opportunity to get their man. Also known under its more racist title "Boss Nigger".

Title: Bus Is Coming
Year: 1971
Genre(s): Drama, Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 109 Min
Directed By: Wendell Franklin
Audio/Picture Quality: B

The MAN Can't Stop It! Don't Miss It! A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.

 

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Title: Candy Tangerine Man
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Action, Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 95 Min.
Directed By: Matt Cimber
Audio/Picture Quality: B

Sunset Boulevard is a lucrative place to work for the Black Baron, a pimp with a distinctive red and yellow Rolls Royce and plenty of girls on his books. He don't take no mess from his girls, his madam or his competitors and viciously defends his patch. First, he clobbers the Mob who attempt to move in on his patch. Second, he tracks down one of his girls who runs off with a suitcase full of his cash. Third, he disposes of two policemen. But by now he knows his pimping days are numbered, so after a final explosive gun battle he switches to being his alter ego, mild-mannered businessman Ron who lives out in the leafy suburbs with an unsuspecting wife and family. 
 

Title: Coonskin AKA Street Fight
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 100 Min.
Directed By:  Ralph Bakshi
Audio/Picture Quality: B

While waiting out his escape from prison, a man listens to an older prisoner tell the animated story of a rabbit, a bear, and a fox who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by getting rid of a black con man, a racist white cop, and the Godfather of the Mafia. From the makers of Fritz The Cat

Title: Darktown Strutters
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Comedy, Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 90 Min.
Directed By: William Witney
Audio/Picture Quality: B

DARKTOWN STRUTTERS is pure soul-crazed 70s entertainment at its maximum! I strongly urge all archivists of blaxploitation cinema to go out and hunt down this one-of-a-kind rarity, a blaxplo-comedy-musical that knows no bounds when it comes to absolute weirdness. Everything from the opening sequence ("Any similarity between this true life adventure to the story Cinderella...IS BULLS--T!") to the rest is genuine cinematic trash, but it's well worth the agony! ALABAMA'S GHOST was just as weird! I'm not too crazy about comedies, but the erraticly innovative formula was far ahead of its time (for 1974). Still, this is a one-way ticket to Funkland Junction! Among the highlights you'll get to see are a police car with a gargantuan siren and a cloning machine, which are hard to believe. The oddball taste does appear to fit well in DARKTOWN STRUTTERS, making this an enjoyable trip through a time when fashion trends and moral values have gone through mass transition.

Title: Death Drug
Year: 1978
Genre(s): Drama, Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 83 Min.
Directed By: Oscar Williams
Audio/Picture Quality: B

A young man in Los Angeles dreams of striking it big as a singer in the music business. One day he gets signed to a big record contract, but along with the fame and money he develops an addiction to the drug PCP. Starring Philip Michael Thomas from Miami Vice!

Mr. Freedom, a pro-America superhero who fights for God and country by beating, robbing, raping and killing anyone who looks like they might disagree with him. When he hears that France is in danger of falling to the Commies, Mr. Freedom heads overseas to set things right. When the welcome he receives isn't quite as warm as he expected, he gives up hope of steering the French away from the Reds and decides to salvage what he can by destroying the entire country.

Title: Slams, The
Year: 1973
Genre(s): Action, Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 91 Min.
Directed By: Jonathan Kaplan
Audio/Picture Quality: B

After a heist Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police. In jail various people want to know where he stashed the loot. But the places where he stashed the loot ($1.500.000) will be demolished so he has to get out of jail to get to the dough.

Based on the real events that shocked San Franisco in the early 70's. Mac (James Pickett) portrays the role of The Zebra Killer, a white man who dresses in black makeup and strolls the city of San Francisco stalking, raping and killing young women. Lt. Savage (Austin Stoker) hears that the Killer has killed his girlfriend (Valerie Rogers). Lt. Savage goes everywhere to find and kill the maniac, along with the help of Williams (Hugh Smith) and Robert (Charles Kissinger).