The only proof you need is a cluster of indie movies that came out so close together in 1994 and 1995 that they’re basically an example of multiple discovery
Photo: October Films With apologies to Transylvania and Sunnydale, the ideal place to be a vampire was New York City in the mid-’90s. . Michael Almereyda’s Nadja, Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, and Larry Fessenden’s Habit operated under the common thesis that if bloodsuckers stalked the streets of the city, they’d blend seamlessly into the crowd, because resident scenesters like wearing dark clothes and being dramatic just as much as any supernatural figure.
Even the title character in Almereyda’s not-quite-comedic saga, who smokes a cigarette while sumptuously making her way along the sidewalk to Portishead in a hooded cape, manages to sound like an apologetic European heiress out getting her kicks in the city when she talks about her background. “Family money from Romania,” she admits to a man she’s struck up a flirtation with in a bar. “It comes from the suffering and exploitation of the poor — the peasants, the workers.
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