Bill Gunn
film070 presents: Ganja & Hess
Bound by immortality and an insatiable thirst, Hess and Ganja discover that the true horror lies not in blood, but in how much of themselves they’re willing to lose for it.
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.
This film will be shortly introduced by one of the members of film070.
Spooktober
This Halloween, Filmhuis Den Haag transforms into a house of horrors, where the screen flickers with shadows and the air grows thick with terror. As the lights dim and the eerie glow fills the theater, the walls seem to breathe, waiting for the first scream to break the silence. With every scene, blood will flow, hearts will race, and the darkness will close in. Will you survive the terror?