Sugar Hill - At 'Dem Flicks with Malcolm

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Malcolm
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Synopsis:
Fuck whitey. That's my boilerplate answer for '70s exploitation cinema.

Review:
Fuck whitey. Mobsters sent to intimidate a nightclub owner into a sale intimidate him a bit too far. His woman looks up the local Voodoo priestess because, well, New Orleans. She pledges her soul to local supernatural entity and a variety of fairly goreless killings follow because the props department took all the budget, I guess, leaving little for special effects. There are zombies with unconvincing cobwebs and body paint, so the cash didn't go to waste, and they do have a certain style about them, points for that, I suppose.

You'll find a small vein of comedy gold in a scene where a chicken foot attacks a dude. Fun drinking game: take shots until you can't see the lines moving the it.

Verdict:
Fuck whitey. I particularly like the scene at the end when Baron Samedi comes to collect the chick's soul.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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