Night
Owl Cinema
GANJA & HESS
Friday, February 9th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Flirting with the
conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent
film Ganja & 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), bestowing upon him 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 missing husband, she and
Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power
blood holds. (USA, 1973, 113 mins, R |
Dir. Bill Gunn)