Black anthropologist Dr Hess Green (Duane Jones) is researching the Mythrians, an ancient African nation who ritually drank blood. When he is stabbed with one of their artefacts, a mystic dagger wielded by his deranged assistant Meda (Bill Gunn), it awakens an unquenchable thirst. As Meda’s wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) searches for her husband, she too is converted by the bloodlust.
A unique, radically black take on the vampire genre, Ganja & Hess unapologetically warps the long-held vision of vampires on screen.
