Q&A: Spike Lee and Zaraah Abrahams on Da Sweet Blood of Jesus — shocktillyoudrop.com

“We don’t think this is a horror film,” Spike Lee and lead Zaraah Abrahams greet me. I’m not so sure, but Spike Lee’s new film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, a remake of Bill Gunn’s cult favorite Ganja and Hess, is a fascinating, violent, dreamy work nevertheless. It evokes both Gunn’s eccentric tone and themes of addiction, as well as European cinema, from lush ambiance to the sensuality and passion and stylized atmosphere of Jean Rollin. And so it wasn’t a stretch for Shock to sit down with the incomparable filmmaker and his Sweet Blood star (taking over for Marlene Clark as Meda) and discuss the darker places his not-vampire film goes. 

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