David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Beth Ehlers, Dan Hedaya,  Rufus Collins, Suzanne Bertish, James Aubrey

Based on a novel by Whitley Strieber. This thriller was perhaps the most ambitious of the modern vampire genre that ignited in the 1980s. Deneuve plays a 4000-year-old bloodsucker in New York City who enlists the helps of a research scientist (Sarandon) to help forestall the death of her lust-worthy mortal lover (Bowie). Neo-Gothic, gorgeous cheekbone-laden, and with special effects and a lesbian love scene remarkably sophisticated for Hollywood at the time, this movie makes up in consumptive carnality what it lacks in narrative coherence.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)