Nadja

Nadja (1995)

Unseen. Unforgiving. Undead.

In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.

Date of release
1995-09-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (65)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
Michael Almereyda

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $443.2K
  • Budget: $1M
  • Earned 0.4× its budget
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sitges Film Festival Best Director award

Nadja is a 1994 American vampire art movie written and directed by Michael Almereyda, starring Elina Löwensohn in the title role and Peter Fonda as Abraham Van Helsing.

Production

Nadja was written by Michael Almereyda after a planned project called Fever (centered around Edgar Allan Poe) failed to attract financing. The 1928 surrealist novel Nadja by André Breton served as an inspiration for the thematic approach, with Almereyda also studying several classic vampire films and lore.

To attain a "blurry, out of focus" look to convey the point of view of the living dead, Almereyda shot part of the film using a Fisher-Price PixelVision camcorder. Almereyda attempted to make the film in a similar style to Roger Corman, with the Corman-produced Poe films a particular source of inspiration for not only style and tone, but frugal film-making. The movie was filmed over the course of five and a half weeks in New York City.

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