The 16 Scariest Black Horror Story Characters
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Deron Dalton
Blacula (1972)
He’s the grandfather of Black movie monsters. “Blacula” started blaxploitation films’ diving into the horror genre with re-tellings of popular movie monsters with African-American themes — usually depicting the brutality of racism and struggles of living while black in America with terrifying twists. Many movies to come would try to copy the success of William Marshall’s Blacula. The horror flick is about an African prince in 1780 who is bitten and turned into a vampire, Blacula, by Dracula after he asked him for his help in stopping the slave trade. He awakens centuries later in the 1970s. He finds himself terrorizing LA and finding a woman who looks like the reincarnation of his wife.
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