The Addiction (1995)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:19
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: 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.
Synopsis: In director Abel Ferrara's THE ADDICTION, vulnerable New York University grad student Kathleen (Lili Taylor) becomes a philosophic vampire after an alleyway attack. Shot in expressionistic black... [More]
Starring: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco
Director: Abel Ferrara
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Reviews for The Addiction
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One of Ferrara's most idiosyncratic yet popular slices of misanthropy. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
It's got a remarkable visual texture, integrity to burn, and almost -- but not quite -- enough intelligence to justify its lofty ambitions. Full Review |
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No matter, without exactly transcending the awful material, Ferrara puts it across with astonishing poetry and conviction. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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Scary, funny, magnificently risible, this could be the most pretentious B-movie ever -- and I mean that as a compliment. Full Review |
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3/4 |
What we get is a slight, but entertaining movie, that's (dare I say it?) unintentionally funny at times. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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The allegory wears thin fast, and we're just left with artifice.
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2/5 |
Given all the talent involved, this should have been much more compelling.
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4/5 |
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3/5 |
Love him or hate him, Mr. Ferrara is one of the few directors who can turn genre movies into something deeper. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Christopher Walken, who always looks like one of the living dead, proves that he hasn't exhausted his capacity to make your skin crawl. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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B |
Ferrara's film both impresses and terrifies sufficiently for most of its duration. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Captain! The Pretense-O-Meter's gone off the scale!
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4/5 |
A strange and diverting take on the old vampire tale.
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3/5 |
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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. Full Review |
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B+ |
Ferrara sinks his teeth into a moral fable that equates bloodlust with amorality and postulates that there may, even now, be salvation for the sinner. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Eternally heavy-handed director Abel Ferrara isn't interested in making anything that even remotely resembles a conventional horror film. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for The Addiction
October 03, 2008:
Further Reading: Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker in Abel Ferrara's Mary
As the NFT in London prepares a Juliette Binoche season, Kim looks at Abel Ferrara's Mary which also stars Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker. More...
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