Nadja (1994)
Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Elina Löwensohn, Karl Geary, Peter Fonda, Martin Donovan, Galaxy Craze
Synopsis:
In contemporary New York Van Helsing helps an unhappily married man save his wife from the clutches of Dracula's daughter.
Review:
Unattractively shot in greyish monochrome and even less pleasant pixel-vision, doubtless in homage to the original 1936 Dracula's Daughter, this is a poorly scripted and incoherent mess of a thriller resembling other personal visions of the genre such as Liquid Sky. There are one or two jokes for fans, and Fonda is a game long-haired Van Helsing, but any hope of realising the latent eroticism of the earlier film are lost, in spite of a barely decipherable lesbian coupling which appears to posit menstrual blood as a vampiric turn-on.
Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Elina Löwensohn, Karl Geary, Peter Fonda, Martin Donovan, Galaxy Craze
Synopsis:
In contemporary New York Van Helsing helps an unhappily married man save his wife from the clutches of Dracula's daughter.
Review:
Unattractively shot in greyish monochrome and even less pleasant pixel-vision, doubtless in homage to the original 1936 Dracula's Daughter, this is a poorly scripted and incoherent mess of a thriller resembling other personal visions of the genre such as Liquid Sky. There are one or two jokes for fans, and Fonda is a game long-haired Van Helsing, but any hope of realising the latent eroticism of the earlier film are lost, in spite of a barely decipherable lesbian coupling which appears to posit menstrual blood as a vampiric turn-on.
Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Elina Löwensohn, Karl Geary, Peter Fonda, Martin Donovan, Galaxy Craze
Synopsis:
In contemporary New York Van Helsing helps an unhappily married man save his wife from the clutches of Dracula's daughter.
Review:
Unattractively shot in greyish monochrome and even less pleasant pixel-vision, doubtless in homage to the original 1936 Dracula's Daughter, this is a poorly scripted and incoherent mess of a thriller resembling other personal visions of the genre such as Liquid Sky. There are one or two jokes for fans, and Fonda is a game long-haired Van Helsing, but any hope of realising the latent eroticism of the earlier film are lost, in spite of a barely decipherable lesbian coupling which appears to posit menstrual blood as a vampiric turn-on.