Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) on Netflix
NR20142h 3mComedyRomanceThriller
Dr. Hess Green, a wealthy anthropologist, is stabbed with an ancient Ashanti dagger and wakes craving blood. Ganja Hightower arrives at his mansion looking for money her ex-husband owes her.
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- Netflix2.3/5
- IMDb4.5/102,127 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes45%
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Plot summary
Dr. Hess Green is a wealthy African American anthropologist who collects art, and his Martha's Vineyard mansion is filled with pieces from Africa. The dagger he acquires came from the ancient Ashanti Empire. That night a museum colleague, Lafayette Hightower, comes to the house, and afterward he attacks Green with the blade. Green wakes unharmed, unable to be hurt physically, and no longer able to keep down ordinary food or drink; he wants blood. Ganja Hightower, Lafayette's estranged ex-wife, comes to the mansion looking for money he owes her. She and Green become lovers, and she moves in. Then Green leaves on business.
Cast
- Lauren Macklinas Nurse Royster
- Jeni Perilloas Sahara Paysinger
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
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- For the soundtrack Lee asked unsigned, unknown artists to send music in over social media. Over 800 songs were submitted; he listened to all of them in a single weekend and settled on 12 tracks, one of them by Siedah Garrett, a songwriter and backup singer for Michael Jackson, Madonna and Donna Summer.
- The remake stays extremely close to Ganja and Hess, at times scene for scene and shot for shot, and uses so much of the original dialogue that its original writer Bill Gunn, who died in 1989, is credited as a co-writer alongside Lee.
- The opening credits call the film "An Official Spike Lee Joint", possibly a reference to the studio interference Lee met on his previous film, a remake of the South Korean revenge thriller Oldboy, whose credits described it as "A Spike Lee Film" instead of his customary "A Spike Lee Joint".
