Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Spike Lee funded this film through Kickstarter and made it as a reworking of Bill Gunn's 1973 cult classic Ganja & Hess. An anthropologist is stabbed with an ancient African dagger and wakes with a thirst for blood, which draws him and the woman he loves into an addiction they can't quit.

Like Gunn's original, it uses the vampire story to talk about desire, faith and assimilation among the Black elite. It's an act of homage to one of the great overlooked American films, and a way of pointing new audiences toward it.