The Addiction (1995)

★ 6.5 1h 22m 306 votes IMDb

A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

The Addiction

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Cast

Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor as Kathleen Conklin Age 59 · Glencoe, Illinois, USA Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress who works in film, television, and theater. She first gained recognition for her supporting roles in the 1980s and 1990s films Mystic Pizza and Say Anything. Ta...
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken as Peina Age 83 · Queens, New York City, New York, USA Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) is an American actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs, including Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The D...
Annabella Sciorra
Annabella Sciorra as Casanova Age 66 · Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA Annabella Sciorra (born March 29, 1960) is an American film, television, and stage actress. Sciorra received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead for the 1989 film True Love, an...
Edie Falco
Edie Falco as Jean Age 62 · Brooklyn, New York, USA Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007), and as Nurse Jackie Peyton on the Showtime series...
Paul Calderon
Paul Calderon as Professor Age 74 · Puerto Rico He was born in Puerto Rico 1959. Calderon moved to New York with his family at the age of six, where he grew up on the streets of the Lower East Side and Spanish Harlem. Following some time in college...
Fredro Starr
Fredro Starr as Black Age 55 · Queens, New York, USA Fredro Scruggs (born April 18, 1970), better known by his stage name Fredro Starr, is an American rapper and actor from South Jamaica, Queens best known as a member of hardcore rap group Onyx. Descri...

Audience Reviews

Gimly 5/10 Nov 20, 2016
Even for an arthouse vampire film, it's pretentious, and that's quite an achievement. Existentialism abounds but substance (no pun intended) does not.

Good for audio sampling though.

_Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._
Dsnake1 6/10 Oct 11, 2019
The Addiction is one of the more thoughtful films about vampirism available today.

While the film is incredibly thoughtful, with loads of subtext at every corner, it borders, and sometimes crosses into, pretention. There are times where the narration is attempting to add subtext, but it's so heavy-handed that the film loses sight of the fact it's a horror film. I'd argue it's thought piece first and horror film second, honestly. Maybe that makes it even more frightening.

Christopher Walken is wonderful, and Lili Taylor does a fine job, as well. The choice to shoot the film in black and white was a great idea, as well. There's a real focus placed on the ideas the film is pursuing.

Even though the subject of the horror in this film are vampires, the movie is truly describing humanity.

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