"A triumph of low-budget filmmaking" - J. Hoberman, New York Times
"an example of a genre we can call Deadpan Noir. It's the kind of movie that deals with unspeakable subjects while keeping a certain ironic distance and using dialogue that seems funny, although the characters never seem in on the joke. - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
Opens March 20 | Merging elements from DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (TESLA, EXPERIMENTER, HAMLET) acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse , Van Helsing’s nephew Jim, and Jim's wife are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania. Executive produced by David Lynch.
Awards & Nominations
Official Selection: 1994 Toronto International Film Festival
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