Jack Starrett
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Ver Linden’s film makes use of this horrific concept in an attempt to recapture themes and aesthetics of Blaxploitation-era revenge movies like Cleopatra Jones and Coffy (the latter factors significantly in the plot).
The semi-serious introduction of 1970s Black American popular culture adds another level to the story, making public figures such as Angela Davis, and female-led action films of the day, from Coffey to Cleopatra Jones , both part of the story and a running commentary, in a highly entertaining way.
If the movie feels a little like a remake of “Race With the Devil” — the old drive-in hit with Peter Fonda and Warren Oates — well, it’s not.
What's really remarkable is how much of this pricey demolition derby feels ripped from cheaper, better drive-in films of yore, most obviously Jack Starrett's classic Race With the Devil and Robert Fuest's The Devil's Rain.
The political or theological agenda of the Children of the New Dawn is never clear, but that’s beside the point; like “Suspiria” or “Race with the Devil” (1975), it’s all about giving it back to the occult freaks so gleefully demonic and drenched in innocent blood.
If your tastes lean towards genre flicks like Hellraiser, The Wicker Man, and Race with the Devil, there’s very little chance you won’t dig this movie in a big way.
Tenemos entonces tantas historias de blaxploitation como los clásicos de Shaft o Cleopatra Jones, cine oriental de Bruce Lee hasta los western y su subgénero el spaghetti western, todo ello combinado para presentarnos historias construidas con grandes personajes a través de diálogos únicos.
Screenwriter George Gatins hints at elements Peter Fonda or Warren Oates would have nailed, and there are moments when "Need for Speed" flirts with the darkness found in films like "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry" and "Race with the Devil."
While far more mainstream — and by extension, kid-friendly — than such blaxploitation classics as “Foxy Brown” and “Cleopatra Jones,” “Black Panther” upholds the same tradition of celebrating strong, assertive black women.