The Addiction (1995)
Genre: Horror / Drama
Duration: 82 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken and Annabella Sciorra
IMDb score:
6,5 (12.877)
Releasedate: 10 January 1995
The Addiction plot
"The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive."
Kathleen is a diligent student at New York University. She is working on her PhD and leads a quiet life. Until one evening she is bitten in the neck by a strange woman. After being hospitalized for anemia, she realizes she has turned into a vampire.
Actors and actresses
Kathleen Conklin
Peina
Casanova
Jean
Professor
Black
Anthropology Student
Missionary
Black's Friend
Narrator / Priest
Reviews & comments
Tonypulp
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- 21231 messages
- 4608 votes
Wonderful to read the responses. Many seem to assume that she is a vampire (and that this is a vampire movie). But whether she is a vampire or simply a junkie (with a kind of feral fantasy background), Ferrara leaves it completely open. Brilliant! It was already pointed out in his Bad Lieutenant that drug addicts are like vampires. ''but vampires are lucky, they can feed on others''. This Addiction puts words into action. The fact that no one has the willpower to say "no" is also an addict's weakness. They all get the choice. Philosophical tour de force of the mid 90's. Magnificent role from Taylor too.
Seen in connection with an excerpt from the book ''Beyond the Darkness''. Piece of well thought out exploitation!
I completely agree with yeyo's piece!
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wibro
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- 11590 messages
- 4098 votes
The third film I have seen by this director and I did not appreciate this film either. I deliberately skipped it at the time because films about vampirism are not exactly my thing. Because it contained philosophical texts, I watched this film anyway. I thought the black and white photography was quite successful, but it was mainly the philosophical interpretations that made me curious. Well, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger; These are philosophers that I read a lot. Also interesting is the explanation of the concept of determinism, which I could agree with very well. The story and meaning of that vampirism: unfortunately I couldn't do much with that.
2.0*
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Director Abel Ferrara can thank Lili Taylor on his bare knees for partly saving his film. She is a particularly mature and charming presence that can easily take the film along. Ferrara himself adds a symbolic link between vampirism and drug addiction, but this is never mapped out very intelligently. In principle, it mainly works as a funny puzzle in the back of the mind within a story that fairly obediently avoids the vampire clichés. The finale turns out a bit better, but boredom sets in early once it is clear that everything is not being worked out particularly unpredictably. The black and white photography produces sharp and beautiful images left and right, but ultimately does not add much to the raw tone. By the final scene the film had more or less lost me, but in the end it provides reasonable food for thought, even if only on my own initiative.
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