Nadja

Release date:

1994 USA

Running time:

92' (cover 92') - Source: DVD (RC 1/NTSC) b/w
88' (cover 88') - Source: DVD (RC 2/PAL) b/w

Rating:

Germ.: 16; UK: 15; US: R

Main Crew:

Director: Michael Almereyda (Hamlet 2000; Trance 1998; Twister 1988)
Producer: Kino Link
Score: Simon Fisher-Turner
Writer: Michael Almereyda
Director of photography: Jim Denault

Cast:

Summary:

Twin brother and sister vampires struggle against each other - and the ancient curse that binds them - in this stylish, erotic thriller set against the concrete canyons of modern-day Manhattan. Fiendishly seductive Nadja (Elina Löwensohn), and brother Edgar (Jared Harris), spend their days entombed in darkness, and their nights hiding in the heart of the New York afterhours scene. But Edgar is haunted by the painful duality of life lived in the shadows - and troubled by his twin's relentlessly evil nature. Nadja weaves her sensual spell around the neice and nephew of famed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda), Edgar joins forces with his would-be-assassin, plotting to bring down his sister in an all-out orgy of sex, blood, danger and death.

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Our Ranking

short review:

Produced by David Lynch (who appears in a short guest role), the whole movie is filmed in black and white. This point and a lot of talking with not too much action surroundings reminds me much of Abel Ferrara's great film The Addiction. Like the former mentioned, it is well done, impressive and it has an interesting ending. Here you can find one of the best films of the genre with kind of a new access to the subject.