Retro Rewind

Retro Rewind: The First Black Horror Movie

Published: Saturday 21st Sep 2019 by David

 

Welcome to Retro Rewind, the original TGJ feature carved out to celebrate TV and Film’s glorious past.

Today, we’re revisiting the movie ‘Son of Ingagi’….the very first horror movie to be led by an African-American cast.
Released in 1940, the picture (which has nothing to do with the repulsive and racist movie ‘Ingagi’), ‘Son’ tells the tale of a couple who inherits the home of a doctor who recently returned with Africa with a dangerous “souvenir”.
Little does she know that her souvenir and the power it will come to possess which change her life…forever.
Watch, if you’re brave enough, below…


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