What to know critics consensus Da Sweet Blood of Jesus has no shortage of style, but it isn't enough to make this horror-tinged Spike Lee joint one of his best - or worth recommending. Read critic reviews Where to watch Rent/buy Rate And Review Super Reviewer Super Reviewer Rate this movie Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh Absolute Must See! What did you think of the movie? optional You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket. Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Let's get your review verified. Fandango or AMC AppNew Enter your Ticket Confirmation located in your Info Cinemark Coming Soon We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Regal Coming Soon We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Theater box office or somewhere else By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket. Rate this movie Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh Absolute Must See! What did you think of the movie? optional How did you buy your ticket? Fandango or AMC AppNew Enter your Ticket Confirmation located in your Info Cinemark Coming Soon We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Regal Coming Soon We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Theater box office or somewhere else By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Photos Movie Info An anthropologist Stephen Tyrone Williams awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger. Genre Mystery & thriller, Comedy, Drama Original Language English Director Writer Release Date Theaters Feb 13, 2015 limited Release Date Streaming May 26, 2015 Runtime 2h 3m Distributor Gravitas Ventures Cast & Crew Critic Reviews for Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Audience Reviews for Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Most Anticipated 2022 Movies Best Horror Movies of 2022 Marvel Movies & TV In Order Most Anticipated 2022 TV & Streaming
SpikeLee has not had the best directorial track record lately with 2013’s failed Oldboy remake.He might be finding his way back, however, with his crowdfunded Da Sweet Blood of Jesus which was
“We don’t think this is a horror film,” Spike Lee and lead Zaraah Abrahams greet me. I’m not so sure, but Spike Lee’s new film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, a remake of Bill Gunn’s cult favorite Ganja and Hess, is a fascinating, violent, dreamy work nevertheless. It evokes both Gunn’s eccentric tone and themes of addiction, as well as European cinema, from lush ambiance to the sensuality and passion and stylized atmosphere of Jean Rollin. And so it wasn’t a stretch for Shock to sit down with the incomparable filmmaker and his Sweet Blood star taking over for Marlene Clark as Ganja and discuss the darker places their not-vampire film goes. In Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Dr. Hess Greene comes into the possession of an Ashanti blade. Stabbed with the artifact by his increasingly mad research partner Lafayette, Hess develops an addiction to blood, one he ultimately passes on in a vivid affair with Lafayette’s widow, This interview includes revealing details about Da Sweet Blood of JesusSpike Lee We don’t think this is a horror film. Is this a horror film?Zaraah Abrahams Not to I think it has what’s the word?Abrahams Elements! [Laughs]Shock Till You Drop Doesn’t mean we can’t talk about Oh, we’re gonna talk about Why weren’t you interested in defining the characters as vampires?Lee Vampires are played out, I think that vampires are portrayed as fantastical characters and this film, there doesn’t seem to be anything fantastical about his hardship, about his journey, about how he’s getting through this. He doesn’t want to be this way, he wasn’t born this way, it’s not his intention to be this way. It’s something that he can’t help, and so the characters around him are so honest, that I think it makes it more about his addiction than a vampire Also, the original film Ganja and Hess, they weren’t vampires either. They’re That’s true, they never define them as vampires. Do you think a horror film can’t take things like addiction seriously?Lee I try to stay out of labels, especially I know horror has been generalized, but what people find horrific is different. For me, I didn’t find anything really, in terms of the genre of horror, in this movie to tick the genre Though you have a pretty intense, violent strangulation sequence yourself. Abrahams It is intense!Lee Whoa, so only scenes of intensity can be horror?Shock Not at all!Abrahams It was intense to shoot, and I guess for some, death is in the genre of [To Abrahams] What kind of preparation did you do for that scene?Abrahams It was very I know, closed I just had to close myself I’m not even talking about the sex part, I’m talking when you had to choke her. You were choking the shit out of It’s awful to realize your own strength when you’re faced with “it’s them or me.”Lee I had to call cut or the actress would’ve been How do you as a filmmaker nurture that and help them come back from that place?Lee Number one, they have to feel safe. So, it was a closed set. Myself, [cinematographer] Daniel Patterson, we hung the mics. Actors, with stuff like that, if they don’t feel safe then they’re not going to give you what you I think that Spike created an environment where we very close with the rest of the crew. Once “cut” was called, we connected with each other from when we had dinner together, or when we had drinks together, or rehearsal time. You felt like you were back with the We were in Martha’s Vineyard shooting the film, for the majority of So, secluded to begin Yeah, the house is by Going back to intensity and ticking a genre box, your Martha’s Vineyard location recalls cult cinema, not only Ganja and You had seen it though, right?Shock Absolutely. And there’s a dreaminess to Ganja and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus that also reminded me of Jean Rollin and Eurohorror and cult cinema. Especially the beautiful shot of them being intimate, with the doors of the house reflecting the Yeah, there’s a lot of European touches in the I agree with that as well, and through the costume. I thought it was very chic, which is Your walk through the field feels that way, as With the billowing black cape [Laughs].Abrahams That last scene where he dies in my arms is my favorite That was intense. It was one take. She comes up the steps until we pull back and he’s dead in your arms and you see the cross swinging, that’s all one take, there’s no Hess talks about addiction in many respects in the film. Does their addiction to blood encompass all of that?Lee Yeah, it’s a metaphor for all the things he listed. Power, money, sex, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, crystal meth, crack Abrahams Each other, Love’s an addiction?Abrahams Yeah, because you stick with it sometimes and it’s not good for Do you think that’s what this film is about, as well?Abrahams For her, yeah. For me, yes. First of all, she’s attracted to something that’s not love, and then something about him ignites that in her. Although she knows at this point she’s been through so much, she should walk away, she can’ In the final moments, I could only think of “Ganja’s gotta take care of Ganja.” She couldn’t find the same relief. Even though you’re not interested in defining this film as such, are you an admirer of horror?Lee Yeah, one of the films I watched two weeks ago, a favorite of mine that’s a sleeper Richard Attenborough’s Magic. Anthony Hopkins, Ann Margaret, Burgess Meredith. That’s a great film, scary too. They should bring that film out again. You should have an article on that film. That was overlooked when it came out, it still stands Me, no. I don’t like scary films, I don’t like things that jump, I don’t like scary music, I don’t like scary adverts. Filming in Martha’s Vineyard, when the lights go out it’s dark. It did make me a bit paranoid, it did trickle into my paranoid state. I don’t like venturing into What does it feel like to go to that place then in your performance?Abrahams Very difficult. I felt very vulnerable. I felt as though I really had to be open to Spike’s vision. Me, as Zaraah, I had to close that sense off. I really had to be open to what Spike saw and be naked, almost. Allow myself to be that frightened and that You fully Kickstarted the film. It seems the audience is there and the desire is there for Black filmmakers to make horror Did you ever see a film I executive produced, Tales From the Hood?Shock Absolutely, one of my favorite anthologies. We’re not seeing that happen now. Lee Here’s the thing, if more Black films are made, you would see different types of Black Is there a reticence to finance Black genre films?Lee I don’t know what it is. It’s hard to get funding no matter who you are, but if you’re African American, it makes it more difficult. Thing is, we as a people have enough money to finance the films ourselves. That’s what it’s gonna come down to, if we want to get it Have you noticed a growing cult for Tales From the Hood?Lee People been mentioning it to me. A lot of people probably weren’t even alive when it came out and are discovering it. I haven’t seen that film in Why Martha’s Vineyard?Lee I’ve had a house there for 28 years and it’s the most beautiful place on earth.—Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is in theaters and on demand February 13th. It is currently available to stream on Vimeo.
Watch Now RatingGenresRomance , Drama , Horror , Comedy , Mystery & Thriller Director Cast SynopsisDr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and Sweet Blood of Jesus streaming where to watch online?Currently you are able to watch "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" streaming on fuboTV, Showtime Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Showtime, DIRECTV. It is also possible to buy "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store as download or rent it on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store online. People who liked Da Sweet Blood of Jesus also liked Popular movies coming soon Upcoming Romance movies
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DaSweet Blood of Jesus is a remake of a 1973 film called Ganja and Hess, so there’s this separate layer of history and blaxploitation filmmaking that lends the film an almost inscrutable quality.Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Reviews Movie Reviews By Reviewer Type All Critics Top Critics All Audience Verified Audience Movie Reviews By Reviewer Type Jul 18, 2019 This is an intelligent conversation piece that will certainly not be for all tastes. And yet even its detractors can't deny Lee's compelling flavor. Feb 20, 2019 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus takes the basic plot of Ganja & Hess, its concerns about addiction, racial identity, and religiosity, and shifts the conversation to focus on the relationship between race, classism, and gender. Mar 15, 2017 Spike Lee, the old guard of black indie filmmaking, gets his mojo back with this classy, urbane vampireish art film that is a beauty to behold. Sophisticated, demented, eerie, erotica, prepare to be shocked and flabbergasted. Jun 18, 2016 It's a startlingly incompetent film, suggesting that we've reached a point where Lee's instincts as a filmmaker - so unimpeachable a quarter century ago - have abandoned him entirely. Mar 28, 2016 Praise God. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is Spike Lee's freest-feeling endeavor in a spell. Dec 31, 2015 Spike Lee's Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a loving adaptation of Bill Gunn's 1973 Ganja & Hess. Jul 14, 2015 Lee certainly doesn't schlock things up. But he doesn't add much excitement, either. May 27, 2015 Our American addiction...bloodsucking from humanity in order to maintain the lifestyle to which we are accustomed. By the time Hess wearily muses, "I'm tired of this existence," it's more or less clear he means a spiritually empty capitalist existence... May 25, 2015 An engaging work, one that finds Spike Lee adapting his considerable skills to a new genre. It's not his best movie, but it's definitely one of his most unlikely, and therefore most fascinating. Feb 26, 2015 "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" is a bold but wildly uneven, bloody mess of a film, sunk in large part by the subpar performances by nearly every major character in nearly every major role. Original Score Feb 20, 2015 Never once does the film feel sharp on black identity as did Bill Gunn's original, and the terror is theoretical only. Feb 20, 2015 Thought-provoking but slow "vampire" movie from Spike Lee. Feb 19, 2015 The film's execution doesn't serve its subject matter, making it feel more like an affected thesis than an effective work of art. Feb 17, 2015 A curio that will likely only appeal to Spike Lee's most devoted fans - or those that contributed to the Kickstarter campaign that financed it. Feb 16, 2015 It's clear Lee has some inexplicable love for the source material but he doesn't give us any reason to feel the same way. Feb 13, 2015 ... an audacious but muddled character study that nevertheless proves the veteran filmmaker can never be easily dismissed. Feb 13, 2015 The film is a hypnotically nightmarish mood piece more than anything else; it makes sense and yet doesn't make sense, in the way that dreams do and don't make sense. Feb 13, 2015 Spike Lee makes some interesting creative choices, but his film lacks a pulse. Feb 13, 2015 Unrepentant, uneven and unique, "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" proves that Lee can still make a film worthy of the arguments it will most certainly start. Feb 13, 2015 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a mess, but it's the kind of mess only one of our greatest filmmakers could make. Do you think we mischaracterized a critic's review?
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