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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Play trailer Poster for Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Released Feb 13, 2015 2h 3m Mystery & Thriller Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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An anthropologist (Stephen Tyrone Williams) awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus has no shortage of style, but it isn't enough to make this horror-tinged Spike Lee joint one of his best -- or worth recommending.

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Dwight Brown National Newspaper Publishers Association Spike Lee, the old guard of black indie filmmaking, gets his mojo back with this classy, urbane vampireish art film that is a beauty to behold. Sophisticated, demented, eerie, erotica, prepare to be shocked and flabbergasted. Mar 15, 2017 Full Review Jason Bailey Flavorwire It's a startlingly incompetent film, suggesting that we've reached a point where Lee's instincts as a filmmaker - so unimpeachable a quarter century ago - have abandoned him entirely. Jun 18, 2016 Full Review Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" is a bold but wildly uneven, bloody mess of a film, sunk in large part by the subpar performances by nearly every major character in nearly every major role. Rated: 1.5 Feb 26, 2015 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com This is an intelligent conversation piece that will certainly not be for all tastes. And yet even its detractors can't deny Lee's compelling flavor. Rated: 3/5 Jul 18, 2019 Full Review Lauren Humphries-Brooks Citizen Dame Da Sweet Blood of Jesus takes the basic plot of Ganja & Hess, its concerns about addiction, racial identity, and religiosity, and shifts the conversation to focus on the relationship between race, classism, and gender. Feb 20, 2019 Full Review Nick Newman The Film Stage Praise God. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is Spike Lee's freest-feeling endeavor in a spell. Rated: A- Mar 28, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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steve d Perhaps Lee's worst. Deeply unpleasant and no one to root for. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review a.l.jude p Oh.. what a mess .. funny to the hilt. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member While obviously flawed, after seeing the abysmal audience score, I was expecting one of the worst films I'd ever seen. Instead I got an effective vampire flick with boosts of adrenaline, quirky humor, and an original allegorical perspective, shaping itself as just as much an addiction drama as it is monster movie horror, and spiritual existential reawakening. The movie's pretty bleak, explicit, and depressing as well as overlong, I found it original and enertainingly subversive. Just know it's not for everyone and it isn't anything amazing. 7.75/10. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review camille l La variation de Spike Lee par rapport au film de vampires n'est pas dénuée d'intérêt tant elle regorge de tout ce qui fait de l'oeuvre du newyorkais. Les expérimentations visuelles presque hors de propos sont présentes, les longues plages de dialogue et de silence aussi, comme quelques uns de ses acteurs fétiches (Rami Malek & Thomas Jefferson Byrd sont évidemment présents, le premier étant excellent dans un rôle en total contre emploi). Cependant, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus est aussi une oeuvre excessive, à l'image de Bamboozled, mais sans le côté contestataire et quasiment méchant de l'auteur. Ici, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus est juste un conte sur l'addiction, efficace la plupart du temps mais qui lorsqu'elle se plante en devient presque un pensum. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member There's enough there to make it watchable, if you generally enjoy Lee's work. It's probably twenty five minutes too long. Reminds me of the style from Kubrick's Barry Lyndon - a long character epic of a social misfit. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting at the very least. Not as bad as people here say it is. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An anthropologist (Stephen Tyrone Williams) awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.
Director
Spike Lee
Producer
Spike Lee, Chiz Schultz
Screenwriter
Spike Lee, Vinnie LaRocksta
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Production Co
40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 13, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Runtime
2h 3m