22 Delicious Vampire Movies You Should Bite Into Right Now

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12. Ganja and Hess (1973)

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"After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood."

You might expect a movie about Black vampires from the early 1970s to be your typical blaxploitation flick, but Ganja and Hess isn't quite that. The movie exists somewhere in between the arthouse, horror, and blaxploitation genres and uses vampirism as a metaphor to explore themes like religion, cultural assimilation, addiction, and imperialism. And it's a romance, too. In a genre that is over-saturated with white, pale protagonists, a sexy Black vampire story is can't-miss.

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