Thirty Years Ago, Wes Craven and Eddie Murphy Teamed Up for an Underrated Horror Masterpiece
Photo: Paramount Pictures Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has reintroduced Black vampires to contemporary audiences, but the genre’s lineage reaches back into the Blaxploitation era — most famously with 1972’s Blacula. In that film, William Marshall refused to play a one-note caricature and instead gave his character, Mamuwalde, dignity and a tragic 18th-century origin that rewired the...









