This African-American retelling of The Exorcist stars Carol Speed as the title character, Abby Williams – the chaste and devout marriage counsellor wife of a young reverend…
Browsing: Blaxploitation
Although it is often lumped in with the Blaxploitation boom of the early 70s, Across 110th Street is actually a gritty cop flick with a strong element of social…
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes is ostensibly about Pasha (Paul Harris), a crime lord who runs a numbers racket. Yet like many other…
Champion black prizefighter Cal Jefferson (James Iglehart) is on honeymoon in Hong Kong with his new wife Arlene (Shirley Washington) when he rescues a mute…
Having pulled off a major box-office coup with Enter the Dragon (1973), producers Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller were denied the services of their recently deceased…
Ex-football player Fred Williamson portrays Tommy Gibbs, a ruthlessly ambitious young man who climbs to the top of the New York crime syndicate by first…
Shep Stone (Fred Williamson) is a cheap, affable, and forever in debt Los Angeles-area private eye and former Los Angeles cop. After the funeral of a silent…
This absurd, nasty, amateurish movie looks like it was shot in 16mm on a shoestring budget and has almost the same plot as Bucktown (from…
Writer/producer/director John Evans tries for some substance rather than mere violence in the Blaxploitation genre, and it’s an admirable attempt – but Evans’ laggardly pacing…
A lounge singer called Lolita (Yolanda Love) returns to her hometown and puts together a team of shapely women fighters – including a yoga enthusiast…
Nightclub owner Samson (Rockne Tarkington) does his best to keep his neighbourhood clean of crime and drugs. He is assisted in this endeavour by an…
This sleazy slice of Blaxploitation introduces safari suit-wearing. Mercedes-driving, super-stud hairdresser Mr Jonathan (John Daniels) who wields a mean blowdryer and services his rich, blonde,…
“Six times tougher than Shaft! Six times rougher than Superfly!” Vietnam vet Bubba Daniels (Gene Washington) returns home to find his brother Eddie (Robert Howard)…
Eddie Turner (Joe Desue) is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but brilliant surgeon Dr…
1972 was a big year for Blaxploitation movies (also seeing the release of Superfly and Barry Shear’s Across 110th Street). But this movie probably tops the bizarre-o-meter -…
Hollywood saw major dollar signs, so a machine was quickly invented which churned out movies showcasing the style, rhythm and badness which Whitey could never…
Black bounty hunter, Boss (Blaxploitation stalwart Fred Williamson) and his comic-relief sidekick, Amos (D’Urville Martin) ride into a small frightened frontier town out West in…
Duke Johnson (Fred Williamson) returns to the small southern town of Buchanan (“Bucktown”) – a sleazy town that attracts low rent tourists because of its…
Ron Lewis (John Daniels) is a mild-mannered suburban LA businessman who, unknown to his family, is also the “Black Baron,” a Hollywood pimp with a…
A close-knit group of black employees at a Los Angeles car wash have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt one day, including…