The Addiction (1995)

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Release Date: Oct 6, 1995
Running Time: 84 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Kathleen Conklin is an NYU philosophy student desperate to understand how the complex moral maxims of Nietzche and Heidegger can explain a world in which a My Lai or Dachau is possible. Her abstract contemplations soon turn brutally real when a vampire's bite awakens her own unacknowledged thirst for blood. Kathleen's increasing depravity leads to her moral fall and ultimate redemption.
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Kathleen Conklin
Jean
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Black
Anthropology Student
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Black's Friend
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December 8, 2000
The Addiction

719 10-19-95
The glut of vapid vampire movies makes you want to bite back, but director Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant), working from a rabidly ambitious script by Nicholas St. John, gives the genre a provocative and perversely funny snap that Anne Rice might envy. Lili Taylor casts a haunting spell as Kathleen Conklin, a New York University doctoral student of philosophy who is obsessed with images of evil. When a stranger (Annabella Sciorra) nibbles her neck, Kathleen goes from… Continued