Nadja (film)

Nadja is a 1994 film about vampires.
 * Written and directed by Michael Almereyda.

Unseen. Unforgiving. Undead. taglines tune in, chill out, drop dead

Nadja

 * Life is full of pain, my pain is the pain of fleeting joy.
 * We have come for the body of Count Voivoida Armenios Ceauşescu Dracula. I believe there is a wooden stake in the heart.  You will take us to him.
 * At the morgue. And possibly a reference to Nicolae Ceauşescu the leader of communist Romania overthrown a few years earlier.

Van Helsing

 * He was like Elvis in the end. Drugged, confused, surrounded by zombies.
 * Describing the Count. See wikipedia on Elvis Presley.
 * He tried to change, tried to resist the usual pattern. He managed to show some restraint.  But she, she died in childbirth.  [...]  And after that he didn't care about anything.  It was back to basics.
 * Describing the Count. Back to basics could have been read by British audiences as a reference to that policy of the Conservative Party the previous year, and a derogatory reference given the context.  But this could have been accidental, given the film was an American production.)

Dialogue

 * Nadja (holding Lucy's pet tarantula Bela): What does he eat?
 * Lucy: Potatoes. Potato salad.  Deer[?].  I tried to teach him French but he wasn't interested.
 * Nadja: Maybe he has a learning disability.
 * "Deer" is hard to hear, maybe "Beer".

Taglines

 * Tune in, chill out, drop dead.
 * (A reference of course to turn on, tune in, drop out.)


 * Unseen. Unforgiving. Undead.


 * Hurry, The Dead Travel Fast!

Cast

 * Galaxy Craze—Lucy
 * Peter Fonda -- Van Helsing
 * Elina Löwensohn—the creature Nadja