Reviewed by Kevin Thomas
The Addiction (1995) is unlike any vampire picture you’ve ever seen–but then it was directed by Abel Ferrara, poet of urban violence, from a script by Nicholas St. John so imaginative that it gets away with being as intellectual as it is visceral. Wisely, Ferrara shot it in harsh, high-contrast black and white, for at moments it’s such a blood bath that seeing it in color would be inconceivable. For Lili Taylor, that most distinctive of actresses — at once vulnerable and nervy — it affords an amazingly rich, ambitious role. [Read more…]