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The Lost Boys (15)
Director: Joel Schumacher
1987 | 97 minutes
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Kiefer Sutherland

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire. When a single mother and her two sons move to the sleepy seaside California town of Santa Carla, they discover much more than they anticipated in this visually stunning blend of hip humour, horror and rock ‘n’ roll about the most compelling group of contemporary vampires ever to put fang to vein.

Ganja & Hess (18)
Dir: Bill Gunn
1973 | 110 mins
Cast: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam Waymon

Black anthropologist Dr Hess Green (Duane Jones) is researching the Mythrians, an ancient African nation who ritually drank blood. When he is stabbed with one of their artefacts, a mystic dagger wielded by his deranged assistant Meda (director Bill Gunn), it awakens an unquenchable thirst. When Meda’s wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) searches for her husband, she is converted and learns to live with the demands put on her by her new life.

Ganja & Hess is a unique and radically black take on the vampire genre. With hallucinatory visuals, it not only reshaped the black imagination, it also changed what vampires could signify on screen. Although director Bill Gunn – riding a wave of blaxploitation bloodsuckers in the early 1970s – said “the last thing I want to do is make a black vampire film”, he paved a path for black filmmakers to use genre to say what is unsayable without it.

Screening as part of In Dreams Are Monsters: A Season of Horror Films, a UK-wide film season supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
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