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My name is Blacula!
~ Blacula.

Prince Mamuwalde, better known as Blacula, is the titular main antagonist of the blaxploitation horror series of the same name. He was originally designed in some ways to be an African version of the famous Dracula. In the original film, his creator was revealed to have been Dracula himself, making Blacula a worthy inheritor of the title.

He was portrayed by the late William Marshall.

Biography[]

Blacula[]

Blacula began his life in 1780 as the African prince named Mamuwalde and sought the aid of Count Dracula in suppressing the slave trade; however, Dracula (along with all of his other evils) was revealed to be a racist, and not only refused to aid the prince, but also transformed him into a vampire before sealing him inside a coffin so as to suffer an eternity of thirst for the blood of the living. The tragedy is amplified by the fact the prince's wife Luva was also imprisoned by the cruel Count but died due to not being transformed into a vampire.

Blacula spent nearly two centuries trapped in this torture until 1972, when two gay interior designers purchase the coffin as part of an estate and ship it off to Los Angeles. After they open the coffin, the men become Blacula's first victims, and the hungry vampire goes on the prowl. He soon stumbles across a woman by the name of Tina, who he believes is a reincarnation of his wife; with that, Blacula begins to stalk her.

This brings Blacula to the attention of Dr. Gordon Thomas, who is helping Lt. Peters with the investigation of the series of strange murders that is occurring, and whose girlfriend Michelle is Tina's sister. Blacula proceeds to kill several more people before he hypnotized Tina into falling in love with him. Meanwhile, Thomas, Peters and Michelle are following the trail of victims and come to realize that a vampire is responsible and Blacula is their culprit.

In the final scenes, the police shoot at Blacula and Tina; he is unharmed but she is mortally wounded. He saves her by turning her into a vampire, but Thomas, Peters, and Michelle find Tina and kill her with a stake through her heart. Distraught, Blacula climbs up a staircase and onto a rooftop, into the sun, effectively committing suicide. Blacula's ultimate fate is then shown as he melts in the light, causing maggots to devour his bones and flesh.

Scream Blacula Scream[]

Blacula returns in the first and only sequel Scream Blacula Scream.

In the sequel, Blacula is revived by Willis, a young voodoo practitioner who steals the vampire's remains and brings him back from the dead, hoping to make him his slave so he can use him to get revenge on the other voodoo practitioners who angered him (when they voted his adopted stepsister Lisa Fortier as Mama Loa's successor). However, Blacula turns the proverbial tables on Willis and makes him his slave by turning him into a vampire (thus making it so Willis now finds himself in a curse of his own doing).

Blacula than proceeds to turn various people into vampires to use as minions to help him find a way to end his vampire curse and turn back into Prince Mamuwalde (as he now realizes killing himself would not end his suffering if others like Willis were to revive him).

Ultimately, he finds Lisa, who can perform a ritual to cure him using a voodoo doll of his past life as Mamuwalde, but she refuses after she sees him kill several police. Enraged, Blacula tries to kill her and her friend Justin. In retaliation, Lisa stabs the voodoo doll of Mamuwalde with a wooden arrow, which in turn destroys Blacula forever.

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