It has to be said that the majority of films in the Blaxploitation genre from the 1970s are not very good. These days they are better known for their soul and funk-filled soundtracks, rather than the acting or the story.
The term Blaxploitation was made-up in the early 1970s by the head of the Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People - Junius Griffin.The group were also partly responsible for the demise of the genre, as many of the films were seen to be stereotyping Black people.
In this post we've swerved all the major players of the Blaxploitation films, so there's no Shaft or Super fly on the list. We've also excluded The Hit man (Get Carter remake) and swapped the horror movie Blacula for Black Frankenstein.These posters are for films which had much lower budgets, commonly known as B-Movies, and we assume that most of these would of made films such as Dolemite look like Citizen Kane.
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Terrific collection of poster images! One poster that deserves further comment is WELCOME HOME, BROTHER CHARLES, more for what it does not show (or even suggest), as opposed to what it does. Who would guess from this poster that the film will "climax" with "Brother Charles" unleashing a several foot long penis, which - like a boa constrictor - slithers out and wraps itself around the neck of a baddie in order to strangle him. In fact, for most of the movie's running time, there is actually very little in the film itself to suggest that it is anything other than a deadly serious racial injustice & revenge tale (Note: the film was released on video with the more blaxploitation-like title, SOUL VENGEANCE). The official trailer also obscures this element of the film, and thus, I crudely reedited it myself for a screening at a local blaxploitation film my cult film group hosted at our theatre. Here's my reedited trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uL7l-TEf-o
And if you like that, you'll love this trailer I created for another unsung "classic", which - as far as I know - never had an official trailer:
ABAR - THE FIRST BLACK SUPERMAN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOEL_rV8N4
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