Every first Friday of the month the Film and reggae sessions organized by Nexo Cinema and in the month of Halloween surprise with a horror special, a cult film of American experimental cinema, “Ganja & Hess” (1973), directed by Bill Gunn.

The tape represents the wealthy anthropologist Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), who is stabbed by his assistant George (Gunn) with an ancient African ceremonial dagger before George commits suicide.

The dagger turns Hess into a vampire and further complications arise when George's widow, Ganja (Marlene Clark), She arrives at Hess's house looking for her husband., and they both fall madly in love.

Poem of liberation and condemnation

The film has an important grace and that is that managed to turn the vampire myth into an African-American poem of liberation and condemnation, He also did it in the decade of the 70, time of great global turmoil.

Your director, Bill Gunn, moved away from convention hollywood, collecting praise in Europe in Cannes, but instead it suffered ruthless criticism in the United States which was later reflected in a rather poor box office..

Less than ago 10 years that this work has been rediscovered and valued in its real dimension and is as well as in 2024 the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States for the Library of Congress for being “cultural, historically or aesthetically significant”.

Event details

The function will be performed on Friday 3 October in Company of Jesus 1068, near the Plaza de Armas metro, to 21:30 hours, while the You can get tickets at $5000 in presale, $6000 general Y $4000 for students and seniors.

The ticket office opens at 20:45 hours and be careful that you can enter for free if you cosplay as a character from the movie, validating the costume with a reference image. Remember to bring your card, since it is an event for adults 18 years.

For more information and the purchase of presales, Visit the link in the profile of Nexo Cinema and Instagram.