{"id":71059,"date":"2021-04-03T18:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71059"},"modified":"2021-04-03T18:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T01:43:45","slug":"ganja-and-hess-double-possession-blood-couple-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71059","title":{"rendered":"Ganja and Hess \/ Double Possession \/ Blood Couple (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s some kind of freak!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Poster-203x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Poster-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Poster-692x1024.png 692w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Poster-87x128.png 87w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Poster-183x270.png 183w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Poster.png 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter a Black anthropologist (Duane Jones) is stabbed by his suicidal assistant (Bill Gunn), he becomes a vampire, eventually seducing Gunn&#8217;s widow (Marlene Clark).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African Americans<\/li>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Vampires<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gunn_(writer)\">Writer-director-actor Bill Gunn<\/a> was expected to make a follow-up vampire flick akin to the phenomenally popular blaxploitation film <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=70827\"><em>Blacula<\/em> (1972)<\/a>, but instead made this highly atmospheric experimental film which requires some analysis (and likely a re-watching) to fully parse. As noted by Stuart Galbraith in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/24684\/ganja-hess-the-complete-edition\/\">his review for DVD Talk<\/a>, &#8220;There&#8217;s practically nothing to compare <em>Ganja &#038; Hess<\/em> to in either all of black cinema or the horror genre, and because the film is very much its own animal, audiences often don&#8217;t quite know what to make of it.&#8221; Indeed, <em>Ganja and Hess<\/em> was notoriously re-cut and re-distributed numerous times under different titles in an attempt to make it more appealing, but is thankfully now available once again in Gunn&#8217;s original vision &#8212; which seems entirely appropriate for such an experimental film. While it&#8217;s not for all tastes and moves too slowly at times, it&#8217;s recommended for one-time viewing given its unique place in Black cinema. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=13027\"><em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em> (1968)<\/a> will likely be thrilled to see its star, Duane Jones, on-screen again in one of his very few movie roles. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fine performances by the three leads<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones-450x270.png 450w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Jones.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark-450x270.png 450w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Clark.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn-450x270.png 450w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Gunn.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography by James E. Hinton<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2-450x270.png 450w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-71064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography-450x270.png 450w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ganja-and-Hess-Cinematography.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sam L. Waymon&#8217;s score<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, once, as an unusual cult movie and for its historical significance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068619\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/ganja-and-hess-1973.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/24684\/ganja-hess-the-complete-edition\/\">DVD Talk Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/ganja-and-hess\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JBHmq6C0_sI\">Good Bad Movies Video Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s some kind of freak!&#8221; Synopsis: After a Black anthropologist (Duane Jones) is stabbed by his suicidal assistant (Bill Gunn), he becomes a vampire, eventually seducing Gunn&#8217;s widow (Marlene Clark). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: African Americans Horror Films Vampires Review: Writer-director-actor Bill Gunn was expected to make a follow-up vampire flick akin to the phenomenally popular blaxploitation film Blacula (1972), but instead made this highly atmospheric experimental film which requires some analysis (and likely a re-watching) to fully parse&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71059\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71059"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71076,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71059\/revisions\/71076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}