Tag: Ganja & Hess
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Year Of The Vampire: Ganja & Hess Is About So Much More Than Bloodlust
(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)One of the best vampire films I have ever seen actually never uses the term “vampire” at all. Very early in Bill Gunn’s unsung masterpiece “Ganja &…
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Stream of the Day: How ‘Ganja & Hess’ Became Much More Than a Black Vampire Story
Pioneering filmmaker Bill Gunn’s 1973 iconoclastic “Ganja & Hess” revolutionized the vampire genre and was effectively suppressed in the United States because it wasn’t the Hollywood horror movie that its producers had commissioned the artist to make. Gunn made a film unlike anything that came before it (and arguably even after), at a time when…