The Addiction
The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive.
1995 | 82m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Abel Ferrara |
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| Writer: | Nicholas St. John |
| Staring: |
| A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 06, 1995 |
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| Director: | Abel Ferrara |
| Writer: | Nicholas St. John |
| Genres: | Drama, Horror |
| Keywords | new york city, philosophy, vampire, addiction |
| Production Companies | Fast Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Lili Taylor | Kathleen Conklin |
| Christopher Walken | Peina |
| Annabella Sciorra | Casanova |
| Edie Falco | Jean |
| Paul Calderon | Professor |
| Fredro Starr | Black |
| Kathryn Erbe | Anthropology Student |
| Michael Imperioli | Missionary |
| Jamal Simmons | Black's Friend |
| Robert W. Castle | Narrator / Priest |
| Michael A. Fella | Cop |
| Louis Katz | Doctor |
| Leroy Johnson | Homeless Victim |
| Fred Williams | Homeless Victim |
| Avron Coleman | Cellist |
| Lisa Casillo | Mary |
| Frank Aquilino | Delivery Man |
| Nicholas De Cegli | Cabby |
| Jay Julien | Dean |
| Chuck Jeffreys | Bartender |
| Edward Conna | Waiter |
| Nancy Ellen Anzalone | Dress Victim |
| Susan Mitchell | Featured Victim |
| Mary Ann Hannon | Featured Victim |
| John Vincent McEvily | Featured Victim |
| Bianca Pratt | Featured Victim |
| Christina Campanella | Featured Victim |
| Anthony Giangrande | Featured Victim |
| Kevin Scullin | Featured Victim |
| Heather Bracken | Nurse |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Abel Ferrara | Director |
| Nicholas St. John | Writer |
| Héctor Cordero | Sound Editor |
| Raymond Karpicki | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Ken Kelsch | Director of Photography |
| Linda Grimes | Makeup Artist |
| Jean Block | Assistant Hairstylist |
| Mayin Lo | Editor |
| Clancy T. Troutman | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Mel Zelniker | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Mary Prlain | Set Decoration |
| Kate Morgan | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Beth Curtis | Art Direction |
| Charles M. Lagola | Production Design |
| Melinda Eshelman | Costume Design |
| Sara Baldocchi | Set Decoration |
| Wayne Herndon | Key Hair Stylist |
| Patricia Regan | Makeup Artist |
| Blaise Corrigan | Stunts |
| Joe Delia | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Fernando Sulichin | Producer |
| Russell Simmons | Executive Producer |
| Preston L. Holmes | Executive Producer |
| Denis Hann | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 17 | 33 | 8 |
| 2024 | 5 | 24 | 50 | 9 |
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| 2025 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 3 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 866 | 908 |
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._ ...
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 heav ... y-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.