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Ganja & Hess is a film of genre Drama directed by Bill Gunn released in USA on 20 april 1973 with Marlene Clark
Ganja & Hess (1973)
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Add to a movie listGanja & Hess is a 1973 experimental horror film directed by Bill Gunn and starring Marlene Clark and Duane Jones. The film follows the exploits of anthropologist Dr. Hess Green (Jones) who becomes a vampire after being stabbed by his intelligent, but unstable, assistant (Gunn) with an ancient cursed dagger. Green falls in love with his assistant's widow, Ganja (Clark), who learns Green's dark secret.
This film contains the only other lead role for Duane Jones, best known for starring in the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead (though he appeared in bit-parts in other movies).
The film was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
It was remade by Spike Lee in 2014 as Da Sweet Blood of Jesus.
Synopsis
The film follows Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy black anthropologist who is doing research on the Myrthians, an ancient African nation of blood drinkers. One night, while staying in Green's lavish mansion --richly decorated with African art--, Green's unstable assistant George Meda (writer/director Gunn), attempts suicide. Green successfully talks him down, but later that night Meda attacks and stabs Green with a Myrthian ceremonial dagger, and then kills himself. Green, discovering the body, drinks Meda's blood and becomes a vampire endowed with immortality and a need for fresh blood. Though he steals several bags of blood from a doctor's office, he quickly finds that he needs fresh victims.Actors
Marlene Clark
(Ganja Meda)
Duane Jones
(Dr. Hess Green)
Bill Gunn
(George Meda)
Leonard Jackson
(Archie)
Mabel King
(Queen of Myrthia)
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