📽️ Before Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” blew up, Bill Gunn’s “Ganja & Hess” (1973) rewrote Black horror—vampirism, addiction, colonialism & Black desire in one film. The “hidden” classic behind a modern blockbuster. Watch here: youtu.be/FB0RQ1taiWI
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We follow up our salute to #DuaneJones with #BillGunn and his highly experimental meditation on addiction in #GanjaandHess. A vampiric love story that was intended to be a "Blacula" cash in but wound up becoming one of the most influential titles in black cinema. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
So, so good!
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Ganja & Hess (1973), dir: Bill Gunn
One of the most important black horror films was for years not available under it's orginal title or in it's original edit. It took a long time for it see a proper re-release.
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This would make for a great double feature with “Ganja and Hess”
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Black horror has always been about more than monsters. From Eve’s Bayou to His House, these 25 films use fear to uncover what the world tries to forget: identity, history, and survival. #BlackHorror #PsychologicalHorror #GanjaAndHess #EvesBayou
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In #ColumbusOH tonight (8/8/25) looking to scare up some fun? Come to @gatewayfilmcenter.bsky.social 9pm for @frightclub.bsky.social #Live w/ a showing of #GanjaAndHess (73) & talk from @maddwolfcolumbus.bsky.social a film so influential #SpikeLee remade it come to see the O.G. Version #HorrorFam
So #HorrorFam #MutatFam #AllAreFam do U need a horror fix this Fri (8/8/25) & find yourself in #ColumbusOH ? U R In luck 9pm at @gatewayfilmcenter.bsky.social is @frightclub.bsky.social #Live w/ a showing of #GanjaAndHess 73,w/ @maddwolfcolumbus.bsky.social discussing another good Horror Movie theme
Ganja & Hess (1973)
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Trop conceptuel, hybride et inclassable.
✍️ La suite ici :
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I still need to check this film out here is the trailer for #GanjaandHess
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Celebrating Black Horror
GANJA & HESS (1973)
Black horror masterpiece (imo) by Bill Gunn starring Duane Jones of Night of the Living Dead fame.
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Black History Month Pick. Ganja & Hess (1973). Written and Directed by Bill Gunn. Anthropologist, Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones) is stabbed with an ancient Myrthian dagger, thus cursing him with immortality and a thirst for blood. #GanjaAndHess #BlackHistoryMonth #PhysicalMedia
“Ganja and Hess” counts as going to church. Sorry I don’t the make the rules
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In case anyone hasn’t caught on yet: “Ganja & Hess” was written as a metaphor for addiction and examines it through the lens of Black spiritualism
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Working Theory: “Twilight” got the idea for sparkly vampires from “Ganja and Hess”
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Spike Lee directed and rewrote a remake of “Ganja and Hess” in 2014 under the title of “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus”. You can watch it for free here (ok.ru/video/290803...)
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Probably not the best sign when the man you’ve been intertwining with physically, emotionally and spiritually literally runs off to drink blood alone in the attic
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Due to the extremely limited budget (estimated to be a mere $350,000) director Bill Gunn utilized dream and fantasy sequences and creative camera and lighting work to give the film its signature hypnotic aesthetic. Also, it was shot all on the same property
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And now our feature presentation: 1973’s “Ganja and Hess” (youtu.be/O_gaE-Lh2sU?...) it written and directed by filmmaker, actor and writer Bill Gunn
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Film rec…starring Duane Jones of #NightOfTheLivingDead
Ganja and Hess is a beautiful, under seen twist on vampire lore. #GanjaAndHess #BillGunn #DuaneJones #MarleneClark #horror
#SpikeLee directed the remake, #DaSweetBloodofJesus
Incredible soundtrack by Sam Waymon
Pen drawing of Marlene Clark looking upward and screaming on a black background.
On December 9, 2011, Ganja and Hess was screened on TCM Underground. Here’s some Marlene Clark art!
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That was surprising and fascinating and I really wanna go watch something junky and popcorny now 😄
Thanks for getting acquainted with #GanjaAndHess #FrightClub!
They do. I could've done with less of the hallucinatory sequences, although I did enjoy the conversations, which for some viewers are boring. 😄
It'll leave one some stuff to chew on for a while, for sure! Very thought-provoking.
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So much for vampires bursting into flames if they set foot in a church
As social commentary tho it's unassailable
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Right? Although at least Hess has a few bucks, so Ganja won't have to worry about money for a long time
But still
She is not ok with this at all, he just went ahead and did it
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Okay I love the glitter blood
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"I won't let anything happen to you," says the guy who just TURNED HER INTO THE UNDEAD
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