A landmark African-American feature which stars Marlene Clark and Duane Jones    (Night of the Living Dead). Bill Gunn's Ganja and Hess, "once see  n as a standard vampire movie, has been reinterpreted as a multi-layered study     of conflicts within African-American culture" (Ephraim Katz, The Film       Encyclopedia). Jones plays an anthropologist who contracts a mysterious     disease after he is stabbed with an ancient object. The attack makes him       immortal but also turns him into a vampire.                                      Bill Gunn---USA---1973---113 mins.