“A sensual, scholarly, magic-realist exploration of Black history and Black desire.”
—The New York Times

“An underground classic! The most complicated, intriguing, subtle, sophisticated, and passionate black film of the ’70s.”
—American Film Now

“A blood-soaked masterpiece. One of the most profound, surreal, and horrifying love stories ever made.”
—Complex

“A visionary filmmaker.”
—The New Yorker

Writer/director Bill Gunn’s engaging and sometimes humorous experimental horror film is like no other vampire movie. Its story of a centuries-old African blood disease that takes the viewer into a world of pan-African mysticism and is also a visceral meditation upon colonialism and its trail of blood.