With obvious influences of vampiric classics such as Open until dawn (1996) y The Faculty (1998), both led by Robert Rodriguez, filmmaker Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed) has conquered the American box office with The sinners. A title shot in 65 mm with IMAX cameras that also had Christopher Nolan, as well as his wife and regular collaborator Emma Thomas, among his producers.
Of the boom delblaxploitation of the 70sthat popular film movement starring the African -American communitylos racialized vampires They have claimed their space in the genre of terror, offering great jewels that find their peak in the new Warner Bros.
William Marshall, ‘Black Dracula (Black)’ (1972)
In full boom of the political movement black power and black panthers for the struggle of the rights of African Americans in the US, William Marshall It was transformed into a key figure of the blaxploitationthe black cinema boom, with the classic Blue and his sequel Scream shouting shout (Dracula black 2).
Duane Jones y Marlene Clark, ‘Ganja & Hess’ (1973)
Framed in the most experimental cinema and considered a work of worship, the film of Bill Gunn presented The vampire transformation of anthropologist HESS and the widow of her assistant, Ganja. This projected title in Cannes had a Spike Lee review in 2014.
Eddie Murphy, ‘A loose vampire in Brooklyn’ (1995)
Con Wes Craven in the direction, and Eddie Murphy y Angela Bassett As protagonists, nothing could go wrong. The elegant and spooky vampire Maximillian put the streets of New York legs above in this Terror comedyassuming Murphy’s first villain.
Wesley Snipes, ‘Blade’ (1998)
In the early 70s, Marvel Comics surprised with the presentation of this Hunting Vampires and Black Antihero. A hybrid between the human and the vampiric that shone in the film of Stephen Norrington and its two sequelae, Blade II (2002) y Blade: Trinity (2004). His leather suit and martial arts would do the rest.
Aalilyah, ‘The Queen of the Condemned’ (2002)
Adaptation of the homonymous novel of Anne Riceframed in the saga Interview with El VampiroIt was Aaliyah’s last work before he died in a tragic plane accident. The Queen of the R&B was thus introduced into the skin of the vampire that made Lestat.
Michael B. Jordan, ‘Los Linadores’ (2025)
In his fifth collaboration together, after other works such as the two deliveries of Black Panther o Creed. Rocky’s legendthe director Ryan Coogler and the actor Michael B. Jordan They enter the universe of vampires. Demons, ghosts and magic are shaped hand in hand in a film where the African -American interpreter flirts with evil until introducing it into his own home. A job in which he plays the double role of the twin brothers Elijah and Elias Smokewho are on the way with allies and enemies such as those interpreted by Hailee Steinfeld (Falcon eye), Jack O’Connell (Ferrari) o Li Jun Li (Babylon).
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