The Addiction
"The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive."
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Top Cast
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Lili Taylor
Kathleen Conklin
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Christopher Walken
Peina
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Annabella Sciorra
Casanova
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Edie Falco
Jean
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Paul Calderon
Professor
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Fredro Starr
Black
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Kathryn Erbe
Anthropology Student
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Michael Imperioli
Missionary
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Jamal Simmons
Black's Friend
Overview
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Rating
6.5
/ 10
311 Reviews 1 Popular
2 Reviews
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Gimly5 Nov 20, 2016Even 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._
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Dsnake16 Oct 11, 2019The 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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