#blaxploitation movies

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Gloria Hendry & Jim Kelly in Black Belt Jones, 1974 🖤

#black is beautiful #black women #1970s #circa 1970s #jim kelly #gloria hendry #blaxploitation movies #afro

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#coffy #jack hill #pam grier #blaxploitation art #blaxploitation film #blaxploitation films #blaxploitation movies #blaxploitation #action thriller #action movies #neonoir film #neo noir movies #neo noir film #neo noir thriller #movie art #art #drawing #tcm underground #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[seventhdiscipleworldwide]

#blaxploitation #blaxploitation movies #blaxploitation posters

[vintage-tigre]

Pam Grier in Friday Foster (1975)

#pam grier #70s girl #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #style #70s style #70s aesthetic #beauty #woc #70s movies #blaxploitation #Friday foster

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Pam Grier - Coffy (1973)

#pam grier #coffy #70s movies #70s blaxploitation #action movies #jack hill #seventies #1973

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Dolemite (1975) // Dir. D'Urville Martin

#Dolemite #Rudy Ray Moore #D'Urville Martin #Blaxploitation #B Movie #B Movies #Cult Movies #Low Budget Movies #B Movie Gifs #Dolemite Gifs #Gifs #AVB #AVBGifs #AVGifs #AVDolemite #AVDolemiteGifs #AVBlaxploitation

[justhere707]

Brenda Sykes and Jim Brown in Black Gunn (1972)

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[theactioneer]

Black Fist (Timothy Galfas, 1974)

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Blacula (1972) dir. William Crain

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On April 19, 1974, Truck Turner was sneak previewed in San Francisco, California.

Here's some new Isaac Hayes art!

#truck turner #jonathan kaplan #isaac hayes #blaxploitation #action movies #neo noir #american international pictures #action thriller #1970s #blaxploitation movies #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[streetplaya]

Pam Grier in Friday Foster (1975)

#pam grier #actress #beautiful #beauty #blaxploitation #legendary #black girl beauty #black woman #fashion #1970s nostalgia #1970s cinema #1970s movies #black culture #black is beautiful #foxy brown #black film #friday foster #black beauty #blackgirlmagic #70s cinema #70s aesthetic

[vintage-tigre]

Pam Grier, 1974

#pam grier #70s style #70s aesthetic #70s fashion #70s movies #blaxploitation #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #70s girl #cowgirl

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Rudy Ray Moore - Dolemite (1975)

#rudy ray moore gif #dolemite gif #70s movies #70s blaxploitation #70s crime movies #d'urville martin #seventies #1975 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[black-seance]

Black Horror and Portrayal of Occult

Black horror has consistently been entranced with magic and mysticism, portraying African cultural aesthetics such as Vodou and ancestor worship. Many Black horror movies include themes of possession, occult, and ritualism which are portrayed differently from other horror because of a unique and stigmatized cultural lens. 

Eve’s Bayou is interesting in its portrayal of Vodou and mysticism, as supernatural aspects of Black Southern life seem to be normalized. There are a range of different powers at play within the film, such as with Aunt Mozelle who is simultaneously blessed with foresight and plagued by a curse that has killed all her past lovers in varying gruesome fashion. The film’s main character, Eve, is also clairvoyant herself, and recruits the help of a Vodou lady in order to kill her promiscuous father. Eve is played by Jurnee Smollet, who also happens to star in Lovecraft Country, another show which centers itself around the occult. 

Magic and mysticism is also very present in Blaxploitation horror, such as Scream Blacula Scream with its revival of Blacula via Vodou, or Sugar Hill, which makes use of the Vodou zombie trope through a thrilling tale of revenge. You also have the film, Abby, a horror film in which a woman is possessed by the Yoruba sex spirit, Eshu. Blaxploitation horror also includes portrayals of Black vampires and ghosts, heavy with themes of retribution, racism, and other social issues. These Blaxploitation films, while not really the best portrayal of African occult practices, are unique from other horror in that the horror is specifically of Black origin, again, an example of how Black horror looks at magic and mysticism through a cultural lens. This is in contrast to Western horror flicks, which seem to revolve around the general white sphere and look at magic and mysticism through a strictly gimmicky lens (vampires not as cultural figures, but as marketable boogeymen).

Themes of magic and mysticism can also be found in films such as Get Out, Candyman (both the originals and the sequel), and His House. Get Out’s usage of the mysticism is much more subtle than the rest, but it can be found in the beginning with the usage of the song, Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga, a Swahili song which Jordan Peele states is mean to represent Chris’s ancestors warning him to “get out”. Candyman’s usage is a bit more obvious, with magic and mysticism represented through the oral passage of Candyman as urban legend, which is explored in the 2021 sequel as a simultaneous representation of oral traditions of old, as well as generational trauma from racialized killings of Black men. Lastly, His House makes use of the apeth, otherwise known as a Night Witch in Dinka culture, a creature by which they must repay a debt to after abducting a child and getting said child killed. 

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Dolemite (1975) // Dir. Cliff Roquemore

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