Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 7
Abel Ferrara's 1995 horror/suspense experiment blends urban vampire adventure with philosophical analysis to create a smart, idiosyncratic, and undeniably odd take on the genre.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
Abel Ferrara's 1995 horror/suspense experiment blends urban vampire adventure with philosophical analysis to create a smart, idiosyncratic, and undeniably odd take on the genre.
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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 existential angst. Driven by her merciless condition, she attacks several of her pretentious friends and classmates (even her professor) and mainlines their blood like heroin. Just as she becomes more
Oct 4, 1995 Wide
Apr 28, 1998
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No matter, without exactly transcending the awful material, Ferrara puts it across with astonishing poetry and conviction.
Love him or hate him, Mr. Ferrara is one of the few directors who can turn genre movies into something deeper.
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.
Unfortunately, it's so dark -- and impenetrable -- that it shuts us out.
Macabre and provocative, yet wonderfully restrained.
One of Ferrara's most idiosyncratic yet popular slices of misanthropy.
It's got a remarkable visual texture, integrity to burn, and almost -- but not quite -- enough intelligence to justify its lofty ambitions.
Scary, funny, magnificently risible, this could be the most pretentious B-movie ever -- and I mean that as a compliment.
What we get is a slight, but entertaining movie, that's (dare I say it?) unintentionally funny at times.
Reflecting Ferrara's obsession with guilt and redemption, the film acknowledges the capacity for evil, urging viewers to take responsibility for their actions, or else there won't be a way to arrest evil's diffusion from one generation to the next.
The allegory wears thin fast, and we're just left with artifice.
Given all the talent involved, this should have been much more compelling.
Christopher Walken, who always looks like one of the living dead, proves that he hasn't exhausted his capacity to make your skin crawl.
Ferrara's film both impresses and terrifies sufficiently for most of its duration.
Captain! The Pretense-O-Meter's gone off the scale!
A strange and diverting take on the old vampire tale.
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 Lieutenant. Walken has a small but highly worthy
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