Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eddie Murphy as "Maximillian" in "Vampire in Brooklyn." (Screenshot via YouTube) From "Blacula" to Ryan Coogler's "Sinners," Black ...

Ryan Coogler's hit action-horror film "Sinners" has hit the box office, giving moviegoers an exciting, thought-provoking and terrifying watch. But it's also added Stack (Michael B. Jordan) as the ...

When it comes to horror, Black folks have always been integral to the genre's most thrilling, rebellious, and deeply human moments. But in the world of vampires, we bring something unmatched: a blend ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In Sinners, blood isn't just life—it represents memory, resistance, grief, and desire. It flows thick and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Ryan Coogler's Sinners is having a moment and the film has sparked a resurgence of the Black vampire in ...

As a professional Blerd, I’m always very interested in what Ryan Coogler is working on. So, I leaned forward when I discovered the man who gave us the game-changing Black Panther was finally doing a ...

The relatively niche subgenre of Black vampire films was popularized by Blacula in 1972, and to date only has a handful of entries — all of which are much less well known among the general public. To ...

There are two kinds of messy big-budget movies, and as of 2025, Ryan Coogler has made them both. There’s the Marvel kind (seen in Coogler’s Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), where ...

As fans continue to discover Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners,” and the new Black vampires it has ushered into pop culture, they remind us that when it comes to fangs, Black people have been running ...