Original title: The Addiction
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Region code: A/B/C
Content: 4K UHD
EAN: 5027035027715
Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)
HDR: -
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
Rating: 18
Genre: Horror
Cast: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra
Director: Abel Ferrara
Synopsis:
The mid-nineties were a fertile period for the vampire movie. Big-name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to genre, as did high-caliber filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael Almereyda and Jeffrey Arsenault, and up-and-comers Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro. Amid the fangs and crucifixes, Abel Ferrara reunited with his King of New York star Christopher Walken for The Addiction, a distinctly personal take on creatures of the night. Philosophy student Kathleen (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) is dragged into an alleyway on her way home from class by Casanova (Annabella Sciorra, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) and bitten on her neck. She quickly falls ill but realizes this isn't any ordinary illness when she develops an aversion to daylight and a thirst for human blood… Having made a big-budget foray into science fiction two years earlier with Body Snatchers, Ferrara's approach to the vampire movie is in a lower key. Shot on the streets of New York, like so many of his major works – including The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant - and beautifully filmed in black and white, The Addiction sees the filmmaker on his own terms and at his very best : raw, shocking, intense, intelligent, masterful.
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