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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

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An anthropologist (Stephen Tyrone Williams) awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

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Critics Consensus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus has no shortage of style, but it isn't enough to make this horror-tinged Spike Lee joint one of his best -- or worth recommending.

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Dwight Brown National Newspaper Publishers Association 03/15/2017
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. Go to Full Review Jason Bailey Flavorwire 06/18/2016
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. Go to Full Review Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times 02/26/2015
1.5
"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. Go to Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Oct 8
3.5/4
A poetic meditation on destructive patterns of desire, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus finds Spike Lee repurposing elements of Bill Gunn’s unclassifiable Ganja & Hess (1973) for something unique. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 07/18/2019
3/5
This is an intelligent conversation piece that will certainly not be for all tastes. And yet even its detractors can't deny Lee's compelling flavor. Go to Full Review Lauren Humphries-Brooks Citizen Dame 02/20/2019
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus takes the basic plot of Ganja & Hess, its concerns about addiction, racial identity, and religiosity, and shifts the conversation to focus on the relationship between race, classism, and gender. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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thiago s @Thiagostone 05/27/2025 Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom. See more steve d @RT35616104 12/06/2022 Perhaps Lee's worst. Deeply unpleasant and no one to root for. See more a.l.jude p @judebd 11/04/2022 Oh.. what a mess .. funny to the hilt. See more 06/09/2020 While obviously flawed, after seeing the abysmal audience score, I was expecting one of the worst films I'd ever seen. Instead I got an effective vampire flick with boosts of adrenaline, quirky humor, and an original allegorical perspective, shaping itself as just as much an addiction drama as it is monster movie horror, and spiritual existential reawakening. The movie's pretty bleak, explicit, and depressing as well as overlong, I found it original and enertainingly subversive. Just know it's not for everyone and it isn't anything amazing. 7.75/10. See more camille l @RT76374992 03/16/2020 La variation de Spike Lee par rapport au film de vampires n'est pas dénuée d'intérêt tant elle regorge de tout ce qui fait de l'oeuvre du newyorkais. Les expérimentations visuelles presque hors de propos sont présentes, les longues plages de dialogue et de silence aussi, comme quelques uns de ses acteurs fétiches (Rami Malek & Thomas Jefferson Byrd sont évidemment présents, le premier étant excellent dans un rôle en total contre emploi). Cependant, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus est aussi une oeuvre excessive, à l'image de Bamboozled, mais sans le côté contestataire et quasiment méchant de l'auteur. Ici, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus est juste un conte sur l'addiction, efficace la plupart du temps mais qui lorsqu'elle se plante en devient presque un pensum. See more 06/28/2019 There's enough there to make it watchable, if you generally enjoy Lee's work. It's probably twenty five minutes too long. Reminds me of the style from Kubrick's Barry Lyndon - a long character epic of a social misfit. See more Read all reviews
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Spike Lee

Director

Stephen Tyrone Williams

Dr. Hess Greene

Zaraah Abrahams

Ganja Hightower

Rami Malek

Seneschal Higginbottom

Elvis Nolasco

Lafayette Hightower

Thomas Jefferson Byrd

Bishop Zee

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Movie Info

Synopsis An anthropologist (Stephen Tyrone Williams) awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.
Director
Spike Lee
Producer
Spike Lee, Chiz Schultz
Screenwriter
Spike Lee, Vinnie LaRocksta
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Production Co
40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 13, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Runtime
2h 3m
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