In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget horror movie, Michael Almereyda made this exotic, moody, funny and endlessly inventive reimagining of the Dracula myth.
Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja.
The film follows estranged vampire twins Nadja (Hal Hartley regular, Elina Löwensohn) and Edgar (a very young Jared Harris) as they reunite following their father’s death at the hands of the flamboyantly unhinged Dr. Van Helsing, played with relish by Peter Fonda.
The film’s striking visuals combines high contrast black-and-white 35mm cinematography with the hallucinatory grain of Pixelvision video, looking better than even in this new 4K restoration of the director’s cut.
Director: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Elina Löwensohn, Jared Harris, Peter Fonda & David Lynch
Year: 1994
Language: In English
Country: USA
Running time: 1hr 37mins