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Illustration of Baron Samedi's zombie army
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Baron Samedi's zombie army

Also called: The Zombies of Sugar Hill
FilmUndeadSorcery1968 to 1999

In Sugar Hill, Baron Samedi commands an army of the dead to carry out a revenge killing spree. The zombies are said to be the preserved bodies of slaves brought from Guinea, and they obey orders in the pre-Romero manner. Bloody Disgusting has called it an underseen outlier among zombie films made after Night of the Living Dead.1

Battle it
First appeared
1974
Released 1974
Source work
Sugar Hill (1974)
Paul Maslansky
Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
The Vodou figure Baron Samedi raises the preserved bodies of enslaved people brought from Guinea.
How you become one
They are long-dead slaves called up from their burial place.

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1974

Released 1974

field notes

What the sources say

1

They kill on Baron Samedi's orders, targeting the men who murdered a character named Langston1

2

Makeup by Hank Edds1

3

Peter Dendle calls them a throwback to the classic zombies of the 1930s and 1940s1

4

Shot in Houston for about 350,000 dollars1

5

Cut for television as The Zombies of Sugar Hill1

Sources

  1. Sugar Hill (1974 film) - Wikipedia

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