Episode 610: Ganja & Hess (1973)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 197 minutes

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Summary

Heather Drain and Leon Chase join Mike to kick-off Black History Month with a look at Bill Gunn’s 1973 film Ganja & Hess which stars Duane Jones as Hess Green, a scholar who is stabbed with an ancient dagger by a crazed house guest, the husband of Ganja Meda (Marlene Clark). Hess is resurrected and helps Ganja be reborn as well. The two are now addicted to blood in one of the most unusual vampire films around.

Special guests musician Sam Waymon and author Christopher Sieving (Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess) discuss the behind-the-scenes of Gunn's seminal sophomore film.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Hey, Andrew! The only perversions that can be comfortably condemned are the perversions of others.
0:49.3	I will persist and survive without gods or society sanction.
0:58.4	I will not be tortured I will not be punished I will not be guilty blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
1:07.8	which was shed for the preserve the body and soul for everlasting life drink
1:14.7	this in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for thee and be thankful To let us You got to go
1:28.3	It's so high
1:30.3	Oh
1:32.3	You got to
1:33.3	Leto
1:35.3	To let go
1:37.3	To go
1:39.3	It's so high
1:41.3	Oh
1:42.3	You got a gun
1:45.0	He's not a victim He's a lot Oh my Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White. Join
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