Daniele Taddei
•A young student is vampirized in New York by an attractive vampire woman. After the initial shock and getting used to "her new habits," she will start sucking the blood of New York's inhabitants, including friends and acquaintances. With such premises, the story of this horror film by Abel Ferrara begins, released in America between 1997 and 1998 but only now available in Italy. The film, in an unusual black and white, is the usual story of metropolitan vampires; despite being enhanced by a cameo from the great Christopher Walken, in the role of a "vegetarian" vampire, it is boring, predictable, and incredibly slow. Moreover, there is very little blood, except for the final massacre. The only merit of the film is the idea of treating vampirism as an addiction, a sort of "disease" similar to alcoholism. Otherwise, it is a pseudo-intellectual blood-filled mess, over-the-top, full of genre clichés and references (the references to Romero's "Martin-Wampyr" are more than evident). The happy ending does not console, but rather makes you regret having seen it even more. Not bad, but definitely mediocre.
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