Latest Spike Lee Joint Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Flows on the Big Screen
A pseudo-remake of 1973’s Ganja & Hess, Spike Lee’s latest is ready to sink its teeth into theaters after being successfully funded through Kickstarter last year. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, you can expect Da Sweet Blood of Jesus to flow onto the big screen as well as VOD outlets on February 13, 2015.
In the meantime read all about it below, and look for a trailer soon!
Zaraah Abrahams, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Michael K. Williams, Felicia Pearson, Steven Hauck, and Elvis Nolasco star in the film, which focuses on human beings who are addicted to blood.
Synopsis:
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a long forgotten ancient African tribe. When Dr. Hess Green is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an art curator, Lafayette Hightower, he is uncontrollably drawn into a newfound thirst for blood that overwhelms his soul. He however is not a vampire. Lafayette quickly succumbs to the ravenous nature of the infliction but leaves Hess a transformed man. Soon Lafayette’s wife, Ganja Hightower, comes looking for her husband and becomes involved in a dangerous romance with Hess that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status in our seemingly sophisticated society. A reinterpretation of Bill Gunn’s horror cult film Ganja & Hess, which played as a Critics’ Choice at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Spike Lee’s stylized thriller features an original score by Bruce Hornsby.
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