Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Through a series of incidents, Dr. Hess Green finds himself being cursed by an uncanny ancient African artifact, causing him to develop thirst for blood. The story follows his quest to discover what really happened and what he has to do to get out of the curse, a journey that will uncover the nature of love, sex, and status.
18 May 1980, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
July1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
5 July 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 November 1986, Louisiana, USA
12 May 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
March 15, 2017
Spike Lee, the old guard of black indie filmmaking, gets his mojo back with this classy, urbane vampireish art film that is a beauty to behold. Sophisticated, demented, eerie, erotica, prepare to be shocked and flabbergasted.
March 28, 2016
Praise God. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is Spike Lee's freest-feeling endeavor in a spell.
February 13, 2015
The film is a hypnotically nightmarish mood piece more than anything else; it makes sense and yet doesn't make sense, in the way that dreams do and don't make sense.
July 14, 2015
Lee certainly doesn't schlock things up. But he doesn't add much excitement, either.
February 13, 2015
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a mess, but it's the kind of mess only one of our greatest filmmakers could make.
February 20, 2015
Never once does the film feel sharp on black identity (as did Bill Gunn's original), and the terror is theoretical only.
February 12, 2015
While this return to indie roots frees up Lee's often gifted image making, his usual pace issues and penchant for jagged flourish over sustained feeling keep it from achieving a rich, strange, sexy and sad whole.
February 13, 2015
Unrepentant, uneven and unique, "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" proves that Lee can still make a film worthy of the arguments it will most certainly start.
June 18, 2016
It's a startlingly incompetent film, suggesting that we've reached a point where Lee's instincts as a filmmaker - so unimpeachable a quarter century ago - have abandoned him entirely.
May 27, 2015
Our American addiction...bloodsucking from humanity in order to maintain the lifestyle to which we are accustomed. By the time Hess wearily muses, "I'm tired of this existence," it's more or less clear he means a spiritually empty capitalist existence...
February 26, 2015
"Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" is a bold but wildly uneven, bloody mess of a film, sunk in large part by the subpar performances by nearly every major character in nearly every major role.
December 31, 2015
Spike Lee's Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a loving adaptation of Bill Gunn's 1973 Ganja & Hess.
