Year Of The Vampire: The Addiction Bites Into Dependency And The Problem Of Evil

(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)Though it sounds like the key to unlocking the whole movie, the title of “The Addiction” is not necessarily as straightforward as it seems.

Filmed in crisp black-and-white, Abel Ferrera’s 1995 indie vampire film stars Lili Taylor as Kathleen Conklin, an NYU philosophy student who gets cornered and assaulted in a dark alley one night by a bloodsucking “Casanova” with the face of Annabella Sciorra.Two other future “Sopranos” stars, Edie Falco and Michael Imperioli,…The post Year of the Vampire: The Addiction Bites into Dependency and the Problem of Evil appeared first on /Film.

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