YMMV / Blacula

• Awesome Music: This movie had a pretty damn funky soundtrack courtesy of composer Gene Page that mixed creepy horror motifs with R&B and funk.
• Complete Monster: Count Dracula, from the first film, despite his brief appearance, manages to stand out as a cruel, wicked monster responsible for the events of the duology. A slave trader who views slavery as glorious, Dracula, upon hearing that African Prince Mamuwalde wants to end Africa's slave trade, uses his dozen brainwashed wives to seize Mamuwalde and turn him into a vampire, rechristening him as "Blacula". Locking him away in a coffin to suffer for centuries, Dracula coldly locks Blacula's wife Luva with her husband to starve to death.
• Magnificent Bastard: The noble Prince Mamuwalde is turned into a vampire by the evil Count Dracula. Later returning in modern day, Mamuwalde kills numerous people to slake his lust for blood and easily eludes and confounds his attempted vampire hunting pursuers. Finding a woman who resembles his lost love, Tina, Mamuwalde wins her over with his charisma and charm, until her death results in his somber suicide. Returned from the dead, Mamuwalde turns the tables on a man who believes he might control him and attempts to rid himself of his vampire curse by winning over priestess Lisa Fortier.
• Narm: Anytime there's a Title Drop in both films. It's especially jarring to hear Dracula himself come up with it.
• Narm Charm: The title and premise seem to be from a pitch-perfect cheesy Blaxploitation parody, but the films do take the premise seriously and are actually pretty effective as horror flicks (the first one moreso than the sequel).
• Older Than They Think: Kids these days are more likely to be familiar with the Blacula-inspired character in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy than with this movie.
• Values Dissonance: Many of the comments regarding the two Camp Gay characters in the beginning are definitely a product of a less enlightened era. The fact that the cops dismiss their deaths because they are gay is downright offensive to modern viewers.
• Values Resonance: The homophobia expressed by characters is another part of the movie's stance on prejudice being wrong, though.

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