Available For Free On
Trailers & Videos
Official Trailer
Original Trailer
Lili Taylor loves The Pixies
How old is too old for a romantic lead?
Mark Kermode reviews The Addiction (1995)
The Arrow Video Story
Cast
Lili Taylor
Kathleen Conklin
Christopher Walken
Peina
Annabella Sciorra
Casanova
Edie Falco
Jean
Paul Calderon
Professor
Fredro Starr
Black
Kathryn Erbe
Anthropology Student
Michael Imperioli
Missionary
Jamal Simmons
Black's Friend
Robert W. Castle
Narrator / Priest
Frank Aquilino
Delivery Man
Jay Julien
Dean
Chuck Jeffreys
Bartender
Edward Conna
Waiter
Anthony Giangrande
Featured Victim
Kevin Scullin
Featured Victim
More Like This
Reviews
Gimly
Even for an arthouse vampire film, it's pretentious, and that's quite an achievement. Existentialism abounds but substance (no pun intended) does not.
Good for audio sampling though.
_Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._
Dsnake1
The Addiction is one of the more thoughtful films about vampirism available today.
While the film is incredibly thoughtful, with loads of subtext at every corner, it borders, and sometimes crosses into, pretention. There are times where the narration is attempting to add subtext, but it's so heavy-handed that the film loses sight of the fact it's a horror film. I'd argue it's thought piece first and horror film second, honestly. Maybe that makes it even more frightening.
Christopher Walken is wonderful, and Lili Taylor does a fine job, as well. The choice to shoot the film in black and white was a great idea, as well. There's a real focus placed on the ideas the film is pursuing.
Even though the subject of the horror in this film are vampires, the movie is truly describing humanity.
You've reached the end.