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The Addiction (1995) | User Rating
(15 votes) | Critic Rating
(3 reviews) |
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Release Date
• USA: Oct 6, 1995
MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 22 minutes
Country USA
Studio Fast Films, Inc., Guild
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Other Titles
• The Addiction
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Vampires, Demonic Possession, Suspense, Gore, Drugs, School / Campus, Revenge
Tagline: The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive.
Plot: In director Abel Ferrara's THE ADDICTION, vulnerable New York University grad student Kathleen (Lili Taylor) becomes a philosophic vampire after an alleyway attack. Shot in expressionistic black and white, Ferrara's film blends a cool underground aesthetic with analytical digressions on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard delivered in a breathy voice-over as Kathleen stalks and seduces new victims. Parallels are drawn between vampirism and drug addiction--and intellectualism and genocide--as Kathleen bites and infects a cross section of the East Village, including cabbies, hustlers, and professors, while completing her doctoral thesis on the nature of evil. Her attacks and dissertations are accented by footage from Vietnam, Bosnia, and Nazi death camps that further the parallels. Christopher Walken has a memorable scene as Peina, an older vampire who gives Kathleen some sage advice. Schoolly D provides a fittingly nihilistic rap soundtrack. As with most of Ferrara's films written by longtime collaborator Nicholas St. John, this is a heady, hallucinatory mix of urban grit, violence, and spirituality. Different from the typical vampire film by a mile, it’s worth investigating, especially for Taylor, letter-perfect in her unique
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 The Addiction presents some interesting philosophical and societal issues, as well as a slightly new take on vampirism, but it's ultimately crushed under its own weight.  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
Recommended to say the least, but don't expect to be catching a masterpiece. In addition to "Nadja," "Fright Night" is a much better vampire film than this, not to mention "Interview with the Vampire." Still, if you're a goth, you're sure to like this one.-- (eSplatter.com)
A waste of a horror film. It was just too boring and pointless. It only had two decent scenes and one of those scenes was only good because of Christopher Walken. The rest is just boring crap that you're better off just fast-forwarding through until the end. 3/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
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| Directed by |
Abel Ferrara
Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Body Snatchers |
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| Music By |
Joe Delia
Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, The Tao of Steve |
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