| Scream Blacula Scream | |
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| Directed by | Bob Kelljan |
| Produced by | Joseph T. Naar |
| Written by | Maurice Jules Raymond Koenig Joan Torres |
| Starring | William H. Marshall Pam Grier |
| Music by | Bill Marx |
| Cinematography | Isidore Mankofsky |
| Editing by | Fabien D. Tordjmann |
| Studio | Power Productions |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 27, 1973 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Scream Blacula Scream is a 1973 blaxploitation horror film, made under the working titles Blacula Is Beautiful and Blacula Lives Again!.[1] This is the only sequel to the 1972 film Blacula. The movie was produced by the American International Pictures (AIP) and Power Productions.
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After a dying Voodoo queen, Mama Loa, chooses an adopted apprentice, Lisa Fortier (Pam Grier) as her successor, her true heir, Willis, (Richard Lawson) is outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Mamuwalde the vampire from the former shaman of the voodoo cult, and uses voodoo to bring the vampire back to do his bidding. Returning to life, Mamuwalde turns Willis into a vampire and makes him his slave. Meanwhile, Justin, an ex-police officer with a large collection of African antiques and an interest in the occult, investigates the murders caused by Mamuwalde and his vampire horde. Justin meets Mamuwalde at a party he is hosting. Mamuwalde meets Lisa at the party and they talk about voodoo. Mamuwalde later asks Lisa for help to cure him of the curse of the vampire, using a voodoo doll that looks like the prince. Justin pulls together other cops to go to the Mamuwalde residence to investigate the recent deaths. While she is performing the ritual, Justin interrupts with other cops performing a raid on the house. Lisa refuses to help Mamuwalde after she sees him kill the other police in the house. In his anger, Mamuwalde, now calling himself Blacula, is about to bite Justin when Lisa stabs the prince's voodoo doll killing Mamuwalde and forever destroying Blacula.
The film was released theatrically in the United States by American International Pictures in June 1973.
The film was released on DVD by MGM in 2004 as part of their Soul Cinema series.[2] It is currently out of print. In 2010, the film was digitized in High Definition (1080i) and broadcasted on MGM HD.
The film had a mostly negative reception.[3]