{"id":33085,"date":"2023-06-16T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33085"},"modified":"2023-06-16T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T11:45:00","slug":"blacula-1972-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33085","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blacula&#8221; (1972) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z061623zview_blackula.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Blacula <\/em>(1972)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>William Crain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Joan Torres, Raymond Koenig, Richard Glouner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala, Elisha Cook Jr. <\/strong>and <strong>The Hues Corporation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Blacula! &#8211; Dracula&#8217;s Soul Brother!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1780, Dracula turned Prince Mamuwalde (Marshall) into a vampire and mockingly gave him the name Blackula.\u00a0 Dracula then sealed Prince Mamuwalde in a coffin where he remained a prisoner for nearly 200 years.\u00a0 When the coffin is opened in 1972, Blackula is released to terrorize modern day LA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had avoided watching <em>Blackula<\/em> for decades because I thought it was going to be all-out comedy.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0 <em>Blackula<\/em>, despite the funny title, is a straight up horror film.\u00a0 Before William Marshall accepted the title role, he demanded that the character be treated with dignity.\u00a0 Changes were made to the character&#8217;s background and the movie is played straight.\u00a0 <em>Blackula<\/em> is the first black vampire to appear on film!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was cool to see Elisha Cook, Jr. in a small role as well as the singing group, The Hues Corporation, best known for the hit <em>Rock the Boat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Blackula <\/em>(1972)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z061623zview_blackula2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blacula (1972) Director: William Crain Screenplay: \u00a0Joan Torres, Raymond Koenig, Richard Glouner Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,64,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-music","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33119,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33085\/revisions\/33119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}