Fresh
No matter, without exactly transcending the awful material, Ferrara puts it across with astonishing poetry and conviction.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Addiction
The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive.
1995 · 1h 22m · Not Rated
Drama, Horror
Directed by
Abel Ferrara
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The Addiction
Overview
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Director and cast
- Abel Ferrara Director
- Lili Taylor as Kathleen Conklin
- Christopher Walken as Peina
- Annabella Sciorra as Casanova
- Edie Falco as Jean
- Paul Calderon as Professor
- Fredro Starr as Black
- Kathryn Erbe as Anthropology Student
- Michael Imperioli as Missionary
- Jamal Simmons as Black's Friend
- Robert W. Castle as Narrator / Priest
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Love him or hate him, Mr. Ferrara is one of the few directors who can turn genre movies into something deeper.
Caryn James, New York Times
Fresh
Abel Ferrara, working from a rabidly ambitious script by Nicholas St. John, gives the genre a provocative and perversely funny snap that Anne Rice might envy.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
Unfortunately, it's so dark -- and impenetrable -- that it shuts us out.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
Macabre and provocative, yet wonderfully restrained.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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