#ganja & hess

[goryhorroor]

“horror movies of the 1970s reflect some of the grim social developments of the decade. fortunately, when society goes bad, horror films get good. in the 1970s horror makes its way back into the cultural spotlight. horror movies dealing with contemporary social issues and addressing genuine psychological fears were big hits during the decade.”

[talesfromthecrypts]

An immortal life. And I offered it to him... in the church, on the altar.

Ganja & Hess (1973) // Interview With the Vampire (2022- ) // The Invitation (2022)

[roseillith]

GANJA & HESS (1973) dir. BILL GUNN

[teethburied]

Ganja & Hess 1973, dir. Bill Gunn

[cronennerd]

Valentine’s Day horror pairings

Can’t let you go - Hellraiser (1987), Frankenhooker (1990)

I came back for you - Candyman (1992), The Crow (1994)

BYOB (build your own boyfriend) - Possession (1981), May (2002)

Rose colored glasses - Audition (1999), Stranger by the Lake (2013)

Vampire romance - Ganja & Hess (1973), Thirst (2009)

[horror-aesthete]

Ganja & Hess, 1973, dir. Bill Gunn

[romanceyourdemons]

dracula’s paradigm of vampires, a product of the late 19th century’s milieu of developing race science, is a fundamentally racialized one, framed by the book as a semi-person from far away who has something different about him indicated by the small details of his body, something that gives him a raw, sexual animal power above that of the purer and nominally superior white men of enlightened europe. similarly, just like in the contemporary gothic works the phantom of the opera and dr jekyll and mr hyde, the most horrifying things about dracula are the threats of racial passing and racial devolution—the fear that one of the apparently white faces mingling in high society is actually a mask for the dreaded atavistic-troglodytic-semitic-oriental-infiltrator-invader, and the fear that this invader can draw you in with the promise of gold or sex and then eat your whiteness, making you like him, a degenerated danger to your own people.

for this reason, black vampire films—blacula (1972), ganja & hess (1973), da sweet blood of jesus (2014), anne rice’s interview with the vampire (2022), even the blade films at moments—are so much more interesting than virtually any white-centered dracula adaptation. when the person being turned into a vampire is black, then vampirism fundamentally lines up with whiteness; in these films, to become a vampire is to be violently removed from the community of american blackness in favor of bloodsucking white-adjacency. in all of these works of film with the exception of the blade films, this black person becomes a vampire as a result of gaining enough power, wealth, stability, and respect that they are closer to the lifestyles of the white elite than that of their impoverished black community—and therefore the fears of racial passing and changes to one’s racialization are not the abstract self-spooking concerns of white-centered dracula stories, but rather concrete and salient concerns of black americans: is it possible to have power, wealth, stability, and respectability without the white elite that this wealth brings you closer to eating your blackness, making you just like them, and filling you with their uncaring hunger for the blood of your very own people?

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[talesfromthecrypts]

Ganja & Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

[roseillith]

MARLENE CLARK IN GANJA & HESS (1973) dir. BILL GUNN

[kizzyedgelll]

@pscentral​ event 14: your url ⤷ horror movies + flowers

[horror-aesthete]

Ganja & Hess, 1973, dir. Bill Gunn

[themuseinmuseum]

[cr1msondll]

Some of my fav horror/slashers movies 🔪🩸

1. Suspiria (1977)

2. Ganja & Hess (1973)

3. JAWS (1975)

4. Nightmare on Elm Street, (1984)

5. Black Christmas (1974)

6. Prom Night (1980)

7. Carrie (1976)

8. Jeepers Creepers (2001)

9. US (2019)

10. The Uncanny (1977)

[goryhorroor]

favorite horror movies (31-60)

[talesfromthecrypts]

Ganja & Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn