Black Horror Movies

Sam Jackson defends passengers from snakes on a plane.

Blacula - Blacula was a movie about a Black vampire who was transformed and imprisoned by Dracula for 200 years. Waking up in the 20th century, he promptly begins killing people. (Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio)

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Blacula - Blacula was a movie about a Black vampire who was transformed and imprisoned by Dracula for 200 years. Waking up in the 20th century, he promptly begins killing people. (Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio)

Def by Temptation - Def by Temptation starred Samuel Jackson, A Different World's Kadeem Hardison and Do the Right Thing's Bill Nunn. The movie told the story of a demonic succubus who kills her male suitors. (Photo: Bonded Filmworks)

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Def by Temptation - Def by Temptation starred Samuel Jackson, A Different World's Kadeem Hardison and Do the Right Thing's Bill Nunn. The movie told the story of a demonic succubus who kills her male suitors. (Photo: Bonded Filmworks)

The People Under the Stairs, Wednesday at 11:30A/10:30C - Uh oh! They're coming for BET Star Cinema!(Photo: Universal Pictures)

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People Under the Stars - People Under the Stairs is about a boy who winds up in the wrong house after breaking into his landlord's residence. It turns out his landlords are incestuous, psychotic parents who forced their chilidren into cannabalism. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

Serpent and the Rainbow - Serpent and the Rainbow is set in Haiti and deals with the mythology of voodoo. In the film, an American comes looking for a drug and winds up learning about the dark side of voodoo and Haiti. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

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Serpent and the Rainbow - Serpent and the Rainbow is set in Haiti and deals with the mythology of voodoo. In the film, an American comes looking for a drug and winds up learning about the dark side of voodoo and Haiti. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

Tales From the Hood - Produced by Spike Lee, Tales From the Hood was a take on Tales From the Crypt. The movie told five stories which revolved around child abuse, racism and Black on Black crime. Socially poignant, but with a good scare. The film is an urban classic and grossed nearly $12 million.

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Tales From the Hood - Tales From the Hood was produced by Spike Lee and told three separate scary stories. One of the stories dealt with the monster of an abusive stepdad, another dealt with a racist who was haunted by the ghosts of slaves and the third told the story of a psychotic gangbanger's transformation. (Photo: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks)

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Bones - Bones was directed by Ernest Dickerson and starred Snoop Dogg as an undead gangster trying to avenge his death 22 years after his murder. (Photo: New Line Cinema)

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Bones - Bones was directed by Ernest Dickerson and starred Snoop Dogg as an undead gangster trying to avenge his death 22 years after his murder. (Photo: New Line Cinema)

Holla - Holla tells the story of a once popular comic who turns to murder as a way to boost his career after his 15 minutes runs out. (Photo: New Arena Pictures)

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Holla - Holla tells the story of a once popular comic who turns to murder as a way to boost his career after his 15 minutes runs out. (Photo: New Arena Pictures)

Vampire in Brooklyn, Friday at 3:30P/2:30C - Angela Bassett is the one to watch. (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

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Vampire in Brooklyn - Eddie Murphy played a suave vampire in the horror-comedy Vampire in Brooklyn. Angela Bassett plays a detective that the vampire has his eyes on. (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

Candyman - You can’t ask for much more from a film based in the projects. Slightly political but still pure horror, Candyman was lynched for having sex with a white woman. Say his name five times and he comes back to slash anyone in sight.

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Candyman - Candyman was set in the infamous Cabrini-Green projects in Chicago. It tells the story of a graduate student who investigates the "urban legend" of Candyman only to find out that it was all to real. (Photo: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)

J.D.'s Revenge - J.D.'s Revenge starred The Wire's Glynn Turman and Lou Gosset Jr. The film told the story of a law student who is posessed by the spirit of a dead hustler. (Photo: American International Pictures (AIP)

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J.D.'s Revenge - J.D.'s Revenge starred The Wire's Glynn Turman and Lou Gosset Jr. The film told the story of a law student who is posessed by the spirit of a dead hustler. (Photo: American International Pictures (AIP)

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Somebody Help Me - Omarion and Marques Houston starred in Somebody Help Me, a horror film in which they are tormented by a murderer when they take their girlfriends to a cottage. (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

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Somebody Help Me - Omarion and Marques Houston starred in Somebody Help Me, a horror film in which they are tormented by a murderer when they take their girlfriends to a cottage. (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law - Rudy Ray Moore, most famous for his Dolemite movies, starred in the blaxploitation horror film Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law. Moore plays a nightclub owner who is killed and winds up marrying the Devil's daughter to come back from death. (Photo: Wikicommons)

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Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law - Rudy Ray Moore, most famous for his Dolemite movies, starred in the blaxploitation horror film Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law. Moore plays a nightclub owner who is killed and winds up marrying the Devil's daughter to come back from death. (Photo: Wikicommons)

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror - Like Tales From the Hood, Hood of Horror's told three different stories with Snoop Dogg as the host. One story was about a graffiti artist with a deadly magic power, another was about a rich racist who is forced to live with a group of Black veterans and the last was about a rapper haunted by a friend that he killed. (Photo: Snoopadelic Films Inc)

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Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror - Like Tales From the Hood, Hood of Horror's told three different stories with Snoop Dogg as the host. One story was about a graffiti artist with a deadly magic power, another was about a rich racist who is forced to live with a group of Black veterans and the last was about a rapper haunted by a friend that he killed. (Photo: Snoopadelic Films Inc)

Night of the Living Dead - Night of the Living Dead is the first American zombie movie and it sparked a whole genre. It's also one of the first major movies to have an African-American in the lead role. (Photo: Image Ten Productions)

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Night of the Living Dead - Night of the Living Dead is the first American zombie movie and it sparked a whole genre. It's also one of the first major movies to have an African-American in the lead role. (Photo: Image Ten Productions)

Fallen - Denzel Washington starred in Fallen as a detective on the trail of a serial killer who is actually a demon posessing people's souls. (Photo: Turner Pictures)

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Fallen - Denzel Washington starred in Fallen as a detective on the trail of a serial killer who is actually a demon posessing people's souls. (Photo: Turner Pictures)

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Leprechaun in the Hood - Leprechaun in the Hood was a horror-comedy starring Ice T about a leprechaun who goes on a killing spree after he is accidentally freed by three rappers. (Photo: Trimark Pictures)

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Leprechaun in the Hood - Leprechaun in the Hood was a horror-comedy starring Ice T about a leprechaun who goes on a killing spree after he is accidentally freed by three rappers. (Photo: Trimark Pictures)

Snakes on a Plane (2006) - Jackson starred in this thriller about an FBI agent traveling on a plane filled with deadly snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. Capitalizing on Jackson's yelling and cussin' skills, the film offers the classic line: "I have had it with these motherf--king snakes on this motherf--king plane!"(Photo: Courtesy New Line Cinema)

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Snakes on a Plane - In Snakes on a Plane, Sam Jackson starred as an FBI agent escorting a witness. When a mobster tries to kill the witness by putting deadly snakes on the plane, Sam Jackson fights them off with his smarts and cursing. (Photo: Courtesy New Line Cinema)