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Release Date: 1995

Cast: Paul Calderon, Lili Taylor, Jamal Simmons, Michael A. Fella, Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco, Annabella Sciorra, Fredro Starr, John Vincent McEvily, Kathryn Erbe, Christopher Walken

Categories: Movies, Horror, Black-and-white

The Addiction is an unconventional 1995 vampire film directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Lili Taylor, Edie Falco, Paul Calderón and Christopher Walken. It was written by Ferrara's regular screenwriter, Nicholas St John, filmed in black-and-white and released simultaneously with Ferrara's period gangster film, The Funeral. The film is widely considered an allegory about drug addiction. Kathleen Conklin (Taylor), a young philosophy student at New York University, is attacked by a woman (Annabella Sciorra), who tells her "order me to go away" and, when the frightened Kathleen is unable to do... MORE

The Addiction is an unconventional 1995 vampire film directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Lili Taylor, Edie Falco, Paul Calderón and Christopher Walken. It was written by Ferrara's regular screenwriter, Nicholas St John, filmed in black-and-white and released simultaneously with Ferrara's period gangster film, The Funeral. The film is widely considered an allegory about drug addiction. Kathleen Conklin (Taylor), a young philosophy student at New York University, is attacked by a woman (Annabella Sciorra), who tells her "order me to go away" and, when the frightened Kathleen is unable to do so, bites her neck and drinks her blood. Kathleen develops several of the traditional symptoms of vampirism, including aversion to daylight, but the film's main focus is on her moral degradation. It is hinted that vampires become immortal in this film, the price being an addiction to blood. Vampires are shown repeatedly resorting to the strategy of blaming their victims for not being strong enough to resist them. As one of Kathleen's victims weeps incredulously over the damage, Kathleen coldly informs her: "My indifference is not the concern here - it's your astonishment that needs studying." LESS