Leonard Jackson

Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women. (imdb)

The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States. Meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the Brother's home planet arrive and try to capture him. (imdb)

Afer being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood. (imdb)

Duane and his monstrously deformed twin brother take refuge in a house of freaks, but are tracked down by a tabloid reporter. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)

Black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia. Complications ensue. (imdb)

Released at a time when most black-oriented films were bloody action fests. In contrast, this low-budget effort, coproduced by actors Brock Peters and Michael Tolan, eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior (www.allmovie.com)

Before Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, IN LIVING COLOR, and I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA, there was SUPER SPOOK! Leonard Jackson (Five on the Blackhand Side, The Color Purple) is SUPER SPOOK! He doesn't fit the mold of your typical handsome black action hero. He's short, old, and out of rhythm from the cats down in Harlem. (grindhousedatabase.com)

A Black radical activist and a young White woman find themselves drawn to one another during the politically and racially-charged atmosphere of early 1970s America.

When two prominent black anthropologists, Dr. Green and Dr. Matara, uncover the remains of an ancient African tribe of bloodsuckers called the Myrthians they unleash an evil force buried for centuries beneath the earth.