Mar 10, 2017 ganja and hess 1973 1973 download movie for mobile in best quality 3gp and mp4 format. Soon after, hess meets his former assistants wife, ganja. Waymon, who also composed the film s haunting score. An look at the history of black horror films and the role of african americans in the film genre from the very beginning. When hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood, due to the knife carrying ancient germs. Nov 27, 2014 when the assistants beautiful and outspoken wife ganja marlene clark comes searching for her vanished husband, she and hess form an unexpected partnership. Writer bill gunn produced by chiz schults directed by bill gunn.
Spike lees 2014 film da sweet blood of jesus has been described as being. Though ganja is initially concerned about her missing husband, she soon falls for hess. Ganja and hess, black vampire, blood couple, double possession genres. Gente puo osservare fotografia e dvd nel vostro accorgimento. Hess green jones who becomes a vampire after being stabbed by his intelligent, but unstable, assistant gunn with an ancient cursed dagger. From my 100 movies i want to see before 2020 is over list. Duane jones night of the living dead stars as anthropologist hess green, who is stabbed with an ancient. After being stabbed with an ancient, germinfested knife, a doctors assistant finds. Hess duane jones conferring with his new assistant and expert george meda bill gunn, the director and screenwriter, imagninings taking over, early in ganja and hess, 1973 view the tcmdb entry for ganja and hess 1973. Hess duane jones conferring with his new assistant and expert george meda bill gunn, the director and screenwriter, imagninings taking over, early in ganja and hess, 1973. The chemistry between ganja and hess is so powerful, its really.
Jones continues to carry a torch for his exwife marlene clarkwho. The chemistry between ganja and hess is so powerful, its really what makes the film. Goodworks productions, skyhigh tv et edisons black genres. The film was written and directed by african american playwright and actor bill gunn and stars marlene clark and duane night of the living dead jones. Hess green jones, who becomes a vampire after his intelligent but unstable assistant gunn stabs him with an ancient cursed dagger. After being stabbed with an ancient, germinfested knife, a doctors assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood. The second is the mooddrenched, jazzy musical score, which very likely cost more than the film itself. But ganja and hess is original in its take on using the traditional movie theme of vampirism exhausted to death even by 1973 and using it as an allegory about substance abuse, all wrapped up in a nonstereotypical effort without the typical caricatures which often showed up in blaxploitation fodder designed for the driveins.
There are aspects to this film that are authentic to the african american experience. Maybe if the black film craze continues, the white press might even find it necessary to employ black criticism. The film follows the exploits of anthropologist dr. Remember this is a 70s blaxploitation film, not a contemporary european white film. The film was screened at the 1973 cannes film festival. Also stream ganja and hess 1973 on your mobile, tablets and ipads plot. When the assistants beautiful and outspoken wife ganja marlene clark comes searching for her vanished husband, she and hess form an unexpected partnership. Nov 09, 2017 after being stabbed with an ancient, germinfested knife, a doctors assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood. Duane jones night of the living dead stars as anthropologist hess green, who is stabbed. Salome 1973 film satans school for girls 1973 film the satanic rites of. It remains unreleased, though a video copy was screened in 2010 in a gunn. Pages in category 1973 horror films the following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total.
Na after being stabbed with an ancient, germinfested knife, a doctors assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood. Hess green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation at the ancient civilization of myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. Bill gunn author and director of ganja and hess new york, 1973. Ganja and hess 1973 1973 download movie for mobile in best quality 3gp and mp4 format. Dealing with both male and female homosexual relationships, the film was saddled with an x rating and shelved by its distributor. Green falls in love with his assistants widow, ganja clark, who learns greens. But i have to say that its still worth seeing if youre into blaxploitation films. But if you can stop the craze in its tracks, maybe that wont be necessary. Feb 17, 2015 the film was screened at the 1973 cannes film festival. Rarelust, for bringing this legendary film back to life.
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