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Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. He however is not a vampire. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
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| National Newspaper Publishers Association Dwight BrownSpike 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. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenA dizzying hall-of-mirrors stunt, a horror remake as autobiographical X-ray, and a work of fantasy that serves as a decadently cleansing creative exorcism. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdA ponderous vampire romance that surely ranks among the writer-director’s most sedate, immobile studies of black life in America. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis great-looking, often spellbinding film also shows Lee’s sometimes pervasive theatricality threatening to chomp into the story. But the swirling strangeness of “Sweet Blood” makes it his most mesmerizing work since the underrated “Bamboozled” (2000) and “25th Hour” (2002). |
| The PlaylistRodrigo PerezDa Sweet Blood Of Jesus is, without question, bold, distinct, and idiosyncratic filmmaking with its own voice. Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good or in any kind of reasoned key. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseOur American addiction...bloodsucking from humanity in order to maintain the lifestyle to which we are accustomed. By the time Hess wearily muses, "I'm tired of this existence," it's more or less clear he means a spiritually empty capitalist existence... |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanAn engaging work, one that finds Spike Lee adapting his considerable skills to a new genre. It's not his best movie, but it's definitely one of his most unlikely, and therefore most fascinating. |
| CinemalogueTodd Jorgenson... an audacious but muddled character study that nevertheless proves the veteran filmmaker can never be easily dismissed. |
| Cleveland Plain DealerClint O'ConnorSpike Lee makes some interesting creative choices, but his film lacks a pulse. |
| Paste MagazineJonah FlickerThe film's execution doesn't serve its subject matter, making it feel more like an affected thesis than an effective work of art. |