The Addiction

The Addiction (1995)

  • 73% of critics liked it
    (26 reviews)

  • 66% of users liked it
    (3,144 ratings)

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

Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By
Abel Ferrara
Written By
Nicholas St. John
Genres
Drama, Horror
In Theaters
Oct 4, 1995 Wide
On DVD
Apr 28, 1998

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    No matter, without exactly transcending the awful material, Ferrara puts it across with astonishing poetry and conviction.

  • Caryn James, New York Times

    Love him or hate him, Mr. Ferrara is one of the few directors who can turn genre movies into something deeper.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    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.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    Unfortunately, it's so dark -- and impenetrable -- that it shuts us out.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Macabre and provocative, yet wonderfully restrained.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • vieras e


    Very plausible.

  • Antony S


    Appropriately down 'n' dirty flick from marverick director Abel Ferrara. The Addiction deals with vampirism sans mythology, placing such an affliction as a parallel with drug addiction, a topic Ferrara has addressed before several times, most notably in the seminal Bad… More

  • Kylie B


    Stylistically interesting modern (or post-modern) vampire film. It makes a comparison between vampirism and drug addiction (specifically drugs in the visuals), which is unusual. I don't know if it was the director's intention to distance his audience from the characters and… More

  • Christopher B


    Another great one from Ferrara. Using vampirism as a metaphor for drug addiction would make me puke blood if it were released now, but at the time I thought it was brilliant. When I first saw this I thought the movie was smarter than me, but now that I've grown up big and… More

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