The Addiction
| The Addiction | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Abel Ferrara |
| Produced by | Preston L. Holmes Russell Simmons Denis Hann Fernando Sulichin |
| Written by | Nicholas St. John |
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| Music by | Joe Delia |
| Cinematography | Ken Kelsch |
| Edited by | Mayin Lo |
| Distributed by | October Films |
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Release date
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October 6, 1995 |
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Running time
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82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $302,393 |
The Addiction is a 1995 American vampire film directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Lili Taylor, Edie Falco, Paul Calderón, Kathryn Erbe and Christopher Walken. It was written by Ferrara's regular screenwriter, Nicholas St John, filmed in black-and-white and released simultaneously with Ferrara's period gangster film, The Funeral.
The film has been considered an allegory about drug addiction, as well as an allegory of the theological concept of sin. It contains philosophical, theological and other intellectual content, including references to Husserl, Nietzsche, Feuerbach, and Descartes. The film also features a vampire quoting theologian R. C. Sproul, who is a critic of Roman Catholicism.
Kathleen Conklin (Taylor), a young philosophy student at New York University, is attacked by a woman (Annabella Sciorra) called "Casanova", who tells Kathleen to "order me to go away" and, when the frightened Kathleen is unable to do so, bites her neck and drinks her blood. She develops several of the traditional symptoms of vampirism, including aversion to daylight, but the film's main focus is on her moral degradation.
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