Highly Recommended

Not just an important horror film but one of the true "lost films" of the 1970s and a significant piece in African-American cinema, Ganja & Hess (1973) so transcended genre and overall aesthetic expectations that it all but doomed itself to a fate of almost total obscurity for several decades. After slowly finding an appreciative if microscopic cult audience in the 1990s, DVD producer David Kalet did a painstaking restoration of the film in 1998, one of label All Day Entertainments great triumphs. Three minutes of newly recovered lost footage was reason enough for All Day to reissue the title yet again (as The Complete Edition) with some new extras.

Though it rode the wave of 70s blaxploitation and its sub-genre of horror films, to toss Ganja & Hess in the same category as Blacula (1972) or Abby (1974) would be like lumping 2001 and Solaris ...Read the entire review



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