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Ganja & Hess

1973 • Rated R • 112 minutes

A highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion and African American identity that mixes elements of blaxploitation and horror. An anthropologist is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant bestowing upon him the blessing of immortality and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant's beautiful and outspoken wife comes searching for her missing husband, she and the anthropologist form an unexpected partnership.
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