Blacula
Mark Harris has been a horror fan for over 20 years, and started the Blackhorrormovies.com website in 2005. As a freelance writer since 2003, he has written for publications such as About.com, PopMatters.com, Napster, THEiNDI Magazine, Pretty-Scary.com and Ugly Planet, as well as the head writer for the Chicago-based horror television show Midnite Screams. He has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since 2009 and currently has over 400 horror movies in his Netflix queue.
The Suckling (1990)
Let's face it: 1990 was basically the after party for the '80s, as the cultural trends of the old decade carried over into the new one -- or don't...
Angel Heart (1987)
Remember when the most controversial thing about the cast of The Cosby Show was Lisa Bonet's sex scene in Angel Heart? Ah, the good ol' days.
The year was 1987,...
The State of Black Horror: Get Out and Beyond
Today, the status of African Americans in horror films is tied intrinsically to the status of African Americans in cinema as a whole. That is, it has come a...
VooDoo (2018)
I tend to eye any movie about voodoo that has nary a person of color in it suspiciously. Has voodoo become gentrified now? Are white people conjuring Baron Samedi...
Soft Matter (2018)
The promotional materials for Soft Matter call it a cross between The Shape of Water and Get Out, a description that is troublesome not only because it's wildly inaccurate,...
Snake Outta Compton (2018)
Snake Outta Compton is the type of movie about which it seems safe to assume the title came WAY before a single word of the actual script was written....
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011)
It's hard enough finding time to review all the full-length movies I want to discuss on this site, so I generally don't delve into short films very much unless...
Voodoo Dolls (1991)
The Canadian production Voodoo Dolls feels like a relic -- even more so than the nearly three-decades-old film already is. Its images of a shirtless black man clad in...
Safari (2014)
Even for hardcore horror fans, found footage movies have pretty much worn out their welcome. Too often, they feel like an easy way for someone to make a film...
The Leech Woman (1960)
The Leech Woman isn't exactly the creative zenith of Universal horror -- coming six years after the studio's last great monster movie of its golden era, Creature from the...
