In the late eighteenth century, Prince Mamuwalde travels from Africa to Transylvania to seek Count Dracula’s help in ending the transatlantic slave trade. Instead of helping, Dracula condemns Mamuwalde to eternal life as a vampire. When, a few centuries later, a pair of unwitting interior designers uncover his bones, the streets of 1972 Los Angeles won’t know peace until Blacula has his revenge!
We are so proud to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the very first Blaxploitation horror film, and for it to form the centrepiece of our day dedicated to the subgenre. As you’ll see in our exclusive programme notes, this ground-breaking film would not only depict the first on-screen Black vampire, it would pave the way for those who followed and start the slow change of African American representation in horror cinema, on- and off-screen.
