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“A sensual, scholarly, magic-realist exploration of black history and black desire." - The New York Times

“I felt as if I was watching someone's attempt at translating on to film a nightmare that someone else had experienced."
- David Walker, BadAzz Mofo

“A visionary filmmaker." - The New Yorker

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 an 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 home much power blood holds.

Later recut and released in an inferior version, this edition represents the original release, restored by the Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation, and mastered in HD from a 35mm negative.