The Addiction . Tucson Weekly . 02-01-96

The Addiction

DIRECTED BY: Abel Ferrara

REVIEWED: 02-01-96

Yet another vampire flick, this one from Abel Ferrara, the man accountable for such whitesploitation classics as King of New York and Bad Lieutenant. The Addiction is a shockingly plotless outing through the halls of NYU, where graduate student vampires prey on one another and their faculty. Lili Taylor stars as a tortured Husserlian agonizing over both the locus of evil and which friend to suck on next. (Apparently, six units of philosophy are a prerequisite for initiation into the ranks of the undead.) Black and white photography, faces smeared with chocolate sauce, and a marvelously campy performance by Christopher Walken can't save this from becoming a completely pointless exercise in being and nothingness. Warning: this movie may be enjoyed by vampire-geeks and/or philosophy majors.

--Stacey Richter

Capsule Reviews
The Addiction

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