Black women's influence on metal and connected sub-genres is still often overlooked . As part of my research into Black women ...

Check out these films and TV series that feature iconic Black vampire after you watch Ryan Coogler's hit action-horror ...

Following the success of Sinners, we're looking back at some of the most memorable Black vampire films from Vamp to Blacula.

For her final film performance, Aaliyah takes centerstage in Queen of the Damned, a standalone film adapted from Anne Rice’s 1988 Interview with the Vampire sequel. Aaliyah plays Akasha, a former ...

The 1973 film “Ganja & Hess” is a cult classic about a wealthy anthropologist, Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), who returns home ...

Long before Aaliyah's Akasha became an immortal icon, Jacqueline Sieger ruled the night as Queen of the Vampires in Le Viol du Vampire. Jean Rollin's timeless homage to the bloodthirsty begins ...

In the film, Aaliyah portrays Akasha as the first vampire in Anne Rice’s universe. Akasha is cunning, seductive, beautiful, and powerful. Frankly, the textbook definition, if not the blueprint ...

Menzies claimed the film's main character, a female vampire called Akasha, used to visit his bedroom and the pair had struck a deal in which he would achieve immortality if he killed people.