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Ganja and Hess

A black anthropologist is studying the ancient culture of Myrthia which disappeared when it was destroyed by a transmittable amoebic parasite that was addicted to blood. In the course of his research, he is stabbed with a Myrthian dagger by his assistant who then kills himself.

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  • "Michael D. Moore presents"@en
  • "Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess"
  • "Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess"@en
  • "Ganja and Hess"@en
  • "Ganja and Hess"
  • "Black Evil, Black Vampire , Blackout: The Moment of Terror, Blood Couple, Double Possession, Vampires of Harlem"@en

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  • "A black anthropologist is studying the ancient culture of Myrthia which disappeared when it was destroyed by a transmittable amoebic parasite that was addicted to blood. In the course of his research, he is stabbed with a Myrthian dagger by his assistant who then kills himself."@en
  • "An anthropologist is studying the ancient culture of Myrthia which disappeared when it was destroyed by a transmittable amoebic parasite that was addicted to blood. In the course of his research, he is stabbed with a Myrthian dagger by his assistant who then kills himself."@en
  • "Bill Gunn's first feature has been described as an "intellectual's vampire story" and was suppressed in the United States because it was not the Hollywood genre film the producers had expected. Combining "straight documentary, high melodrama, dark ritual and cool realism," it is the story of Dr. Hess Green, an archivist/anthropologist who becomes addicted to blood after being stabbed with a ritual knife from an ancient African civilization he has been studying. The film deals with the doctor's relationship to his chauffeur who is also a part-time minister, his assistant George Meda and and Meda's wife Ganja. When Meda, a frustrated, suicidal artist, finally succeeds in killing himself, Hess sucks his blood and preserves his body in a freezer. Ganja arrives in town, discovers her husband's corpse and quickly becomes Hess's bride. The couple shares a vampirish existence before Hess seeks redemption at his chauffeur's church. Ganja, on the other hand, lives on to perpetuate the vampire tradition. (Does not circulate)."
  • "Dr. Hess Green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation of an ancient civilization called Myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. When Hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood. It turns out that the knife he was stabbed with carried ancient germs that have turned him into a vampire. Soon after, Hess meets his former assistant's wife, Ganja. Though Ganja is initially concerned about her missing husband, she soon falls for Hess. Though they are initially happy together, Ganja will eventually learn the truth about Hess, and about her husband. Will she survive the revelation? Will Hess?"@en
  • "Dr. Hess Green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation of an ancient civilization called Myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. When Hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood. It turns out that the knife he was stabbed with carried ancient germs that have turned him into a vampire. Soon after, Hess meets his former assistant's wife, Ganja. Though Ganja is initially concerned about her missing husband, she soon falls for Hess. Though they are initially happy together, Ganja will eventually learn the truth about Hess, and about her husband. Will she survive the revelation? Will Hess?"
  • "An anthropologist's investigations of an ancient African culture take a bizarre and deadly turn when he finds himself infected with a strange parasite that turns its hosts into vampires in this haunting and arty blaxploitation horror film."@en
  • "Directed by the actor and writer Bill Gunn, Ganja and Hess, (ostensibly a black sexploitation vampire film) became renowned for its all black cast and its scenes of elegant, multi-lingual Afro Americans imbibing blood instead of martinis. With Ganja and Hess, the cinematographer Hinton changed the look of Afro American filmmaking by insisting that the skin tones of the black actors and actresses in the film not be lightened photographically, a technique that was common at the time. Ganja and Hess had a brief theatrical run in New York City in 1973, as a "blaxploitation" horror thriller, but a vampire film addressing interwoven themes of addiction, passion, class distinction, faith, and the place of blacks in a dominant white society was too complex to fit the genre. Cinematographer James Hinton began his photographic career while he was an active participant in the Civil Rights movement in the 1950's. In 1957 he was one of several correspondents that documented the shooting of Lester James in Seneca, South Carolina. In 1961, again in South Carolina, he documented the reprisals against Harry Briggs and the efforts by the NAACP to relocate Briggs and his family to New York City. In the late sixties, he turned to commercial film production and in 1973 he was hired as the cinematographer on Ganja and Hess. Hinton used his experience as a documentary filmmaker and photographer to bring the techniques of cinema verité to the shooting style of the film."@en
  • "Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn's revolutionary independent film Ganja and Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the living dead) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), endowing him with the blessing of immortality, and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant's beautiful and outspoken wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) comes searching for her vanished husband, she and Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power there is in the blood Later recut and released in an inferior version, this Kino Classics edition represents the original release, restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation, and mastered in HD from a 35mm negative."@en
  • "A black anthropologist is studying the ancient culture of Myrthia which disappeared when it was destroyed by a transmittable amoebic parasite that was addicted to blood. In the course of his research, he is stabbed with a Myrthian dagger by his assistant who then kills himself. The anthropologist is infected with the parasite and begins to hunger for blood."@en
  • "An archaeologist is stabbed with an ancient dagger that gives him immortality and an insatiable thirst for blood, which he then shares with his assistant's wife, and the two of them form a troubled partnership."
  • "An archaeologist is stabbed with an ancient dagger that gives him immortality and an insatiable thirst for blood, which he then shares with his assistant's wife, and the two of them form a troubled partnership."@en
  • "A black anthropologist is studying the ancient culture of Myrthia which disappeared when it was destroyed by a transmittable amoebic parasite that was addicted to blood. In the course of his research, he is stabbed with a Myrthian dagger by his assistant, who then kills himself."@en

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  • "Horror films"@en
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  • "African American anthropologists"@en
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  • "Ganja & Hess a film by Bill Gunn ; a Kelly-Jordan Enterprises, Inc. production ; producer, Chiz Schultz ; directed and written by Bill Gunn"@en

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