Blacula (1972)

Blacula is a black horror movie about an African prince who met with Count Dracula back in the 1700's to negotiate the end of the slave trade. Dracula, however, was super racist and instead turned him into a vampire as a way to make him suffer. Fast-forward a couple hundred years and we find Dracula's estate on the market. It's purchased by some interior decorators and his coffin (which they never thought to look inside) gets shipped to Los Angeles and Blacula gets released into the world. Blacula was a fun watch, it had all the funky music, foxy ladies and jive talkin' you look for a black horror flick. But it also had a lot of homophobic slurs that were weird and unexpected. The movie made a point to show the unfair treatment directed toward black people by society, but at they same time they spewed out hostile and ugly comments toward gay people on multiple occasions. It was an uncomfortable reminder of how people are people. Just because one group are marginalized doesn't mean they support fair rights for other marginalized groups. It's a lot like the women's suffrage movement, white women fought for the rights of white women, not necessarily for the rights of black women. Racism is ugly, but so is homophobia. Blacula was against one and totally cool with the other.