A film that was ahead of its time when it was released in 1973 – and, quite frankly, still very much is today – Bill Gunn’s rarely-screened allegorical cinema classic that revolutionized the vampire genre – "Ganja & Hess" – was suppressed in the United States because it wasn’t the Hollywood horror film that its producers had commissioned writer/director Bill Gunn to make.
This was during the blaxploitation era, and the hope was to cash in on the euphoria of the period, with "Ganja & Hess" (what essentially was to be a black version of popular mainstream vampire films, likely inspired by what we saw in "Blacula" a year…
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