Incluvie Classics - 'Ganja & Hess'
'Ganja & Hess' is a 1973 experimental horror film, written and directed by the visionary auteur Bill Gunn. It was meant to be a straightforward blaxploitation film – but director Gunn had grander ambitions.

From visionary choreographer, Denna Thomsen and award-winning filmmaker Phillip Montgomery, CHILD OF THE SKY is the haunting story of a young woman who wakes in the desert, lost and cold. She is summoned by a powerful force to a strange woman who takes her in - but there is a price.
'Ganja & Hess' is a 1973 experimental horror film, written and directed by the visionary auteur Bill Gunn. It was meant to be a straightforward blaxploitation film – but director Gunn had grander ambitions.
There is no aspect of this film that falls short, except perhaps in minor ways.
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
The documentary depicts the indigenous people of Mexico with sublime reverence, highlighting a generational harmony with the land.
The tale of the Snyder Cut will undoubtedly go down as one of the most fascinating stories in modern film history. It is one of the rare times that movie fans were able to rally together and champion an issue so much so that it actually came to fruition.
Yeah, sure, the movie’s about Carnage. But it’s really about love. A love that defies all odds: the love between a man and his man-eating alien symbiote.