Sugar Hill (1974)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1974
Running Times: 91 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: AIP
Executive Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Producer: Elliot Schick
Production Manager: Frank Beetson

SCRIPT
Script: Tim Kelly

DIRECTION
Director: Paul Maslansky
Assistant Director: Frank Beetson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robert C. Jessup

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Carl Kress
Post-Production Supervisor: Salvatore Billitteri

MUSIC
Music: Dino Fekaris, Nicki Zesses

SOUND
Sound Mixer: C. Darin Knight

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Hank Edds
Costume Designer: Norbart Valentine
Wardrobe Supervisor: Jim George

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Roy L. Downey

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Property Master: Tom Fairbanks

MISCELLANEOUS
Choreographer: William Chaison

LOCATIONS
Locations: Houston, Texas, USA

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Tony Brubaker

CAST
Marki Bey (Diana 'Sugar' Hill)
Don Pedro Colley (Baron Samedi)
Robert Quarry (Morgan)
Richard Lawson (Lt Valentine)
Zara Cully (Mama Maitresse)
Betty Anne Rees (Celeste)
Charles P. Robinson (Fabulous)
J. Randall Bell (Dr Parkhurst)
Thomas C. Carroll (Baker)
Rick Hagood (Tank Watson)
Albert J. Baker (Georgie)
Raymond E. Simpson (King)
Charles Krohn (Captain Merrill)
Larry D. Johnson (Langston)
Gary Chason (police scientist)
'Big Walter' Price (Preacher)
Judy Hanson (Opal)
Roy L. Downey (1st dockworker)
Garrett Scales (2nd dockworker)
Peter Harrell (police photographer)
John Scarborough (police officer)
Tony Brubaker (zombie)
Ed Geldart

PLOT SUMMARY

Sugar Hill stands up to local gangsters trying to extort protection money from her and her boyfriend is murdered as a result. She enlists the help of voodoo queen Mama Maitresse who in turn summons Baron Zamedi, Lord of the Dead. Sugar gives up her soul and Zamedi raises a zombie army to do her bidding.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributors: AIP

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: PG

TIMELINE

1974
April
11: USA – theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Meet SUGAR HILL and her ZOMBIE HIT MEN...The Mafia has never met anything like them!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Voodoo Girl
The Zombies of Sugar Hill

KEYWORDS

blaxploitation, detectives, gangsters, hitmen, machetes, the mafia, mansions, racism, revenge, serial killers, the supernatural, swamps, voodoo, zombies

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009