More Musings for Halloween: “Blacula” (1972) and “Scream Blacula Scream” (1973)…

Blaxploitation Horror. In the 1970s, some independent movie studios (the kind that cranked out B-movies for drive-ins) finally got the potentially lucrative message that representation matters. A new wave of low-budget action movies (“Shaft,” “Coffy,” “Superfly,” “Hell Up in Harlem”) were made which cast their stories with people of color in most of the major…