* ActingForTwo: Creator/VonettaMcGee plays Mamuwalde's doomed bride Luva as well as her 1972 lookalike Tina.
* ActorInspiredElement: William Marshall worked carefully with the producers to make sure his character had some dignity, resulting in a name change from 'Andrew Brown' to 'Prince Mamuwalde' and a backstory of being an African prince who'd succumbed to vampirism.
* DarkHorseCasting: William Marshall was mainly a Shakespearean actor who had barely done any films when he was cast in the title role.
* FakeNationality: Count Dracula is a Transylvanian, while Prince Mamuwalde and Luva are from an unspecified African country. All three are played by Americans.
* FollowTheLeader: The first film's runaway success led to many subsequent black-themed horror movies.
* ProductionPosse: Most of the crew who worked on ''Film/CountYorga'' and its sequel likewise worked on the Blacula movies.
* ReferencedBy:
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "Next, on Exploitation Theatre... Blacula, followed by Film/{{Blackenstein}}, and The Blunchblack of Blotre Blame!" - "Ooh, funky!"
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "There's only three real monsters, kid: Literature/{{Dracula}}, Blacula, and [[Film/TheSonOfKong Son of Kong]]."