The Addiction

6.4
Overview
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Reviews (2)
Gimly (Rated: 5)
Even for an arthouse vampire film, it's pretentious, and that's quite an achievement. Existentialism abounds but substance (no pun intended) does not.
Good for audio sampling though.
Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal.
Dsnake1 (Rated: 6)
The Addiction is one of the more thoughtful films about vampirism available today.
While the film is incredibly thoughtful, with loads of subtext at every corner, it borders, and sometimes crosses into, pretention. There are times where the narration is attempting to add subtext, but it's so heav...
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