The 16 Scariest Black Horror Story Characters
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Deron Dalton
Ganja & Hess (1973)
Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones, “Night of the Living Dead”) plays an archeologist who studies ancient African tribes. His mentally-unstable assistant George Meda (Bill Gunn) stabs him with a germ-infested dagger and he becomes a vampire and feeds off of Meda’s body. Meda’s wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) comes into town looking for her husband and she becomes a vampire too and re-marries Hess. The studio wanted to go in the “Blacula” direction, but Gunn made the film to focus on the power of addiction more than any other vampire film. “Ganja & Hess” was a critically-acclaimed success at Cannes and eventually was restored to original cut after it was panned by many White critics for being unconventional.
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