*****TWO-FACED SPOILERS!****** 1972’s blaxploitation horror-comedy “The Thing With Two Heads” followed the release of earlier double-headed transplant/monster movies, including 1959’s “The Manster,” and 1971’s “The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant.” “Thing…” was created at the 1970s height of the blaxploitation-horror subgenre, which yielded such cult classics as the “Blacula” movies (1972/1973), 1973’s “Blackenstein,” and 1974’s “Abby” (a knockoff…
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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…