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Blaxploitation - Ganja & Hess - The Complete Edition (DVD)

Ganja & Hess - The Complete Edition (DVD)

A scientist stricken with an insatiable hunger for blood dominates this strikingly atmospheric drama. Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy and respected African-American anthropologist, is assigned a new assistant, an intelligent but unstable man named George Meda (Bill Gunn). One drunken night, George stabs Hess with a dagger from the ancient African tribe of Myrthia and then kills himself. The Myrthians were cursed with a thirst for human blood, and, by the time George's wife, Ganja (Marlene Clark), comes looking for him, Hess has developed a similar addiction to blood. Hess and Ganja fall in love, and they soon marry, but Hess infects his new bride with the Myrthian curse, which gives them eternal life, but at a terrible price.

Actor, playwright, and novelist Bill Gunn was hired to write and direct a low-budget black vampire movie, but instead he delivered a thoughtful, impressionistic film that uses addiction to blood as a metaphor for African-American cultural and spiritual identity (and never once uses the word "vampire"). Ganja and Hess proved too deliberately paced and self-consciously surreal for the producers, who chopped it to 83 minutes, removed Sam Waymon's superb musical score, and retitled it Blood Couple. This mangled version was for many years the only one available, and it appeared under six different titles on home video before Bill Gunn's original version was restored for DVD release in 1998. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Audio commentry by the filmmakers
• Restored footage
• Featurette "The Blood of the Thing" on the history of the production
• Featurette examining selected sequences in detail
• Animated photo gallery
• DVD-ROM supplements
• Original screenplay by Bill Gunn
Article on the film by Tim Lucas adn David Walker

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ProductID	IMG3511DVD
Number of Discs	1.00 Disc(s)
Format	DVD
REGION CODE	1
Studio	IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Release Date	10/3/2006
Actors	Marlene Clark, Duane Jones, Mabel King
Director	Bill Gunn
Video	Enchanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, COLOR
Audio	Dolby Digital Mono
Language	English
Availability	in stock
Price:	$22.17

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