Clips From Spike Lee’s ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’Posted by Wilson Morales
February 11, 2015
Gravitas Ventures has released some clips to Spike Lee’s newest film, ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus,’ which hits theaters on February 13, 2015.
A Spike Lee Joint, DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a long forgotten ancient African tribe. When Dr. Hess Green (Stephen Tyrone Williams) is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an art curator, Lafayette Hightower (Elvis Nolasco), he is uncontrollably drawn into a newfound thirst for blood that overwhelms his soul. He however is not a vampire. Lafayette quickly succumbs to the ravenous nature of the infliction but leaves Hess a transformed man. Soon Lafayette’s wife, Ganja Hightower (Zaraah Abrahams), comes looking for her husband and becomes involved in a dangerous romance with Hess that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status in our seemingly sophisticated society.
Also featured in the film are Remi Malek, Felicia Pearson, Lauren Macklin, and Katherine Borowitz.
A reinterpretation of Bill Gunn’s horror cult film “Ganja & Hess”, which played as a Critics’ Choice at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Spike Lee’s stylized thriller features an Original Score by Bruce Hornsby.
“Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” is produced by Chiz Schultz (who also produced “Ganja & Hess”) and Spike Lee, co-produced by Jason Sokoloff, with cinematography by Daniel Patterson, costume design by Ruth E. Carter, production design by Kay Lee, and editing by Randy Wilkins.
The production company is 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks. The original songs soundtrack is from Epic Records.
Clip – Museum of the Republic of Brooklyn
Clip – They Meet
