This is a flawed but very interesting film, followed by a couple of flawed but interesting sequels. I briefly (for me) wrote up my thoughts on the first couple of films in my very old, pre-site Halloween Flicks compendium, which I am now realizing isn’t posted here. I should probably repost that. There’s a lot of philosophical underpinnings that the filmmakers clearly don’t quite get and mess up a bit, and the first film is victimized by the worst, most devastating “shock” ending since the original Nightmare on Elm Street. It actually could do with a remake if you do it right, the problem being is that Tony Todd is as brilliant and irreplaceable as William Marshall would be as Blacula. Especially since Tony Todd is now too old to play Blacula. Where was that movie? How much could the rights to Blacula have cost? Film studios are run by idiots. Like Lance Henriksen, Todd should have had a much better career.
