Abel Ferrara made these almost simultaneously in '95, and they're especially intense even for him. The more successfully operatic first (Chris Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo) follows a family of '30s gangsters on a revenge mission; the second's a gory monochrome vampire flick starring Lili Taylor (and Walken again). Nietzschean, neurotic.
Abel Ferrara made these almost simultaneously in ’95, and they’re especially intense even for him. The more successfully operatic first (Chris Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo) follows a family of ’30s gangsters on a revenge mission; the second’s a gory monochrome vampire flick starring Lili Taylor (and Walken again). Nietzschean, neurotic.
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