Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
- Release Date
- June 22, 2014
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Cast
- Stephen Tyrone Williams , Zaraah Abrahams , Rami Malek , Elvis Nolasco , Thomas Jefferson Byrd , Joie Lee
- Runtime
- 123
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Studio
- Gravitas Ventures
- Writers
- Spike Lee , Bill Gunn
- Tagline
- A Spike Lee Joint
Summary
A Spike Lee Joint, 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 (Stephen Tyrone Williams) is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an art curator, Lafayette Hightower (Elvis Nolasco), 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 (Zaraah Abrahams), 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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