The Addiction

Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral "Art" film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and ...more

Although vampirism has been the subject of a great deal of re-examination and re-interpretation in books and comic books, motion pictures have tended to treat its vampires as minor variations on Dracula. Abel Ferrara's The Addiction is one of the rare exceptions, and it deserves credit for presenting a well-thought-out treatise on what it might mean to really be a vampire in contemporary America. Beyond this framework, Ferrara is actually exploring the problem of evil and humanity's ...more