Zara Cully

Brother John -- A black man returns to his home town in Alabama, just as his sister dies and black workers strike the town's leading industrial plant. He is thought to be an outside agitator until it is learned he is the messenger of death.

Sidney Poitier plays a mysterious stranger who arrives in a small town teeming with anger, distrust and prejudice. It is not until the very end that the townspeople learn his true agenda and where he comes from.

When mobsters kill her boyfriend, "Sugar" Hill (Marki Bey) turns to Mama Maitresse (Zara Cully), a local voodoo priestess, for help in avenging the murder. Mama summons the Lord of the Dead (Don Pedro Colley), who grants Sugar an army of the undead to command in exchange for her soul. Now, the vengeful Sugar leads a zombie rampage in her quest to take out the gangsters who killed her man. Robert Quarry co-stars in this blaxploitation horror classic.

An angel comes to Earth to see if the human race is worth saving.