"Sugar Hill is one of the finest examples of black horror and a super cool zombie flick. "
- houseofhorrors.com

"The end product is so efficiently executed, as well as being so much silly fun, that next to Blacula [1972], this is the best blax-horror feature from the early seventies."
- Slimetime: A Guide to Sleazy, Mindless Movies by Steven Puchalski. A Critical Vision Book, revised and updated edition published in 2002.

"A brisk and efficient blaxploitation horror movie with an intriguing historic-political resonance: the avenging zombies are slaves who died during the voyage from Guinea in the seventeenth century and were buried still in their shackles...their resurrection from their moldy graves, cobwebbed, blank-eyed and plastered with mud and leaves, carries a real frisson and seems to nod in the direction of the excellent The Plague of the Zombies (1966)."
- The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies, edited by Phil Hardy. Harper & Row Publishers, 1986.

"The cobweb-covered zombies with blank eyes and machetes are pretty scary in one of the better movies from the blaxploitation craze."
- The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film by Michael Weldon. Ballantine Books, 1983.

"When it comes to blaxploitation horror films, the genre doesn't get much better than Sugar Hill (1974)....Sugar Hill doesn't contain a lot of scary moments, but it definitely has a nice atmosphere at times and there are a couple of creepy and effective zombie scenes in the movie. The film does have a hell of a lot of attitude, a great voodoo inspired score and a terrific premise."
- Cinebeats, cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/12/18/sugar-hill-1974/

"Offbeat and dumb."
- Donald Bogle, Blacks in American Films and Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

"While this isn't the type of zombie film that Euro-cult fans or Romero buffs are going to expect, Sugar Hill is still a lot of fun. There's very little gore in the film but that doesn't really take away from it. There is some nice atmosphere created and a lot of cool scenes that nicely mix the blaxploitation genre with the zombie film quite effectively. The real star of the show though is Marki Bey."
- Ian Jane, DVD Maniacs

"You're either going to be highly amused by this film, or slightly offended. In either case, it's worth a watch for many reasons, two of which I'll provide for you here. There aren't too many movies out there that give you an attack-of-the-disembodied-chicken-leg scene. And if that's not enough to get you to rent this one, you'll be charmed when you're exposed to the opening and closing song "Supernatural Voodoo Woman" by the Originals (Motown Records, from the album "Game Called Love" (1974), which also features the song "She's My Old Lady.") You don't want to miss out of having this stuck in your head for days and days."
- Zombie-A-GoGo Reviews

"As a horror movie, it's a washout, but as an unintentional comedy, it's pretty entertaining. Most of the acting is pretty bad, but Don Pedro Colley seems to be having a lot of fun with the role of Baron Samedi, and fans of the Count Yorga movies will be glad to see Robert Quarry on hand as the mob boss whose men start dying in horrible ways....The funniest line comes from the mob henchman who, upon being lifted up by the zombie minions to be tossed into a pigpen of starving carnivorous hogs, turns to Sugar Hill and asks "You're not going to do anything funny, are you?"
- Dave Sindelar, Fantastic Movie Musings & Rumblings