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.

The build up, her thirst and her exploration into her newfound confusion were far more interesting than what followed with her lust, Christopher Walken's character, etc. As another user brought up, this gets very pretentious quite quickly, in part due to the nature of her studies also going on but also with how the characters all act, separately and together. I'm glad I saw it, but I doubt I'll have a want to watch it again in the future.

Shot well. It's just too sluggish.

Love how Lili Taylor smokes a cigarette. Lots of college philosophy and emo musings.

Ferrara's philosophical thesis: we are bad.