Ganja & Hess (In-Person)

Screening October 14, 2021

Thursday: 8:00 PM

$5 General Admission

$5 FACETS Members

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Alternative Horror Essentials

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After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Following anthropologist Hess Green, who gets stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), bestowing upon him the blessing of immortality… and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood.

 

Bill Gunn  | USA |  1973  | 110 minutes

"Ganja & Hess works best as a gothic mood piece, a slow-burning, evocative, and cerebral allegory of addiction thinly passing as a horror movie."

- AV Club

"Gunn eschewed exploitation’s tendency toward empty sensation and imbued the film with an undercurrent of realistic misery."

- Village Voice

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