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Ganja & Hess
Directed by
Bill Gunn
R
1973
1h 53m
Drama
,
Fantasy
,
and more
6.1
93%
53%
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After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
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Cast of Ganja & Hess
Marlene Clark
Ganja Meda
Duane Jones
Dr. Hess Green
Bill Gunn
George Meda / Director / Writer
Sam Waymon
Rev. Luther Williams
Leonard Jackson
Archie
Candece Tarpley
Girl in Bar
Richard Harrow
Dinner Guest
John Hoffmeister
Jack Sargent
Betty Barney
Singer in Church
Mabel King
Queen of Myrthia
Betsy Thurman
Poetess
Enrico Fales
Dr. Green’s Son
Tommy Lane
Pimp
Tara Fields
Woman with Baby
Chiz Schultz
Producer
Ganja & Hess Ratings & Reviews
Horror Queers Podcast
Trace Thurman
A surreal, dense and unique vampire tale that demands multiple viewing to fully absorb.
Horror Queers Podcast
Joe Lipsett
A beautiful, evocative and highly unorthodox vampire film. Considering Ganja & Hess was written and directed by a Black queer man in the 70s, its religious themes and surreal imagery are all the more fascinating. A true classic.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
It's the real deal; it sticks with you, and its elliptical storytelling has the force and seduction of a dream that keeps shading into nightmare but never quite gets there.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Bill Gunn took the structure of a Dracula story and made an open-wounded statement that was brazenly uncommercial and intensely personal.
Chicago Reader
Cody Corrall
A seminal take on Blaxploitation and horror.
Patheos
Eve Tushnet
Surreal, collage-like '70s vampire film, wrapped in the embrace of black Christianity and fighting it. You'll know if this film is for you very quickly...
Film Inquiry
Mark Seneviratne
The film making is far from flawless, but what Ganja & Hess really projects is the sense that it came from a person who wanted the work to reflect himself. It is a personal film, its creator having put his art and intellect on the line.
Citizen Dame
Lauren Humphries-Brooks
Whether by accident or design, [Gunn's} creating a new kind of artistic expression out of imagery that had been used to titillate and exploit, a sort of pushback against the producers who wanted him to make a "black vampire movie."
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...an experimental overlapping of dialogue, image, voiceover and music that makes you feel as if you're suffering from an awful fever dream.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A forgotten masterpiece.
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
(In Ganja and Hess) we get a devastating art film that raises more intriguing philosophical questions than hairs on the back of one's neck.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
A meandering but stylish jumble.
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