Blacula (aka Give Skillet a Cape) with Aaron Amos, Shawn Pryor, Alicia Whitley

Scare Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: Homophobia, racism, bury your gays, several homophobic slurs, the n-word (though used entirely by people in the community), blood and gore, potential gaslighting or hypnotism (unclear), one racist ass Dracula It's time to talk about the original black horror movie about the man himself, Mamuwalde aka Blacula! An African Prince appeals to Count Dracula to stop the slave trade and Dracula rewards him by attempting enslave his wife, turning into a vampire, and locking him in a coffin for a few hundred years. And that's all in the first five minutes! The Basics Director: William Crain Writers: Joan Torres, Raymond Koenig Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas What’s it about? IMDB says: An ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles. This month we’re focusing on horror films with black directors and as far as it goes, this is the classic. William Crain was directing this movie when there weren’t many black directors making movies and certainly not ones that look like this. What’s everybody’s history with this movie? Recommendations Aaron - The Wiz Shawn - JD's Revenge Alicia - A Vampire in Brooklyn Emily- Candyman Ben - Dolemite is My Name Jeremy - Bones Follow our guests Aaron Amos Twitter: @aaronjamos Shawn Pryor Twitter: @shawnrpryor Shawnpryor.com Alicia Whitley Twitter: @aliciawhitley Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth Emily's Website: Megamoth.net Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule. Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58 Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/progressively-horrified Website: https://progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm/ Join our Patreon at: patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified to support the show, get bonus episodes, early access to upcoming episodes, and a cool Progressively Horrified t-shirt. Come back next week! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ JOIN JEREMY'S ZOOP CAMPAIGN AND HELP MAKE GREAT COMICS! https://zoop.gg/c/slay Take our listener survey: http://bit.ly/progressivelyhorrified-survey Sign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.