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Ganja and Hess

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Ganja and Hess
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R,1hr 50min
Genres:
Horror,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1973
Director:
Bill Gunn
Distributor:
Kelly/Jordan Enterprises
Starring:
Betty Barney, Marlene Clark, Richard Harrow  ...more
Synopsis: A scientist stricken with an insatiable hunger for blood dominates this strikingly atmospheric drama. Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy and respected African-American anthropologist, is assigned a new assistant, an intelligent but unstable man named George Meda (Bill Gunn). One drunken night, George stabs Hess with a dagger from the ancient African tribe of Myrthia and then kills himself. The Myrthians were cursed with a thirst for human blood, and, by the time George's wife, Ganja (Marlene ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
Ganja and Hess is a film that exists in an odd sort of limbo -- while a handful of fans (among them Spike Lee, James Monaco, and Tim Lucas) consider it a masterpiece, the film has been so inaccessible for so long that plenty of knowledgeable film enthusiasts have never even heard of it, and until recently most interested film buffs were forced to make do with the incoherent short version of the film ... Full Review
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