I've seen Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer but no other Abel Ferrara movie till The Addiction. Now from his two previous films that I have seen I have guessed that this man makes some quite disturbing movies that really have no point and it all happens over again with The Addiction which really is a film trying to be something else.
Lilly Taylor plays Kathleen, a philosophy student who is quite an outcast to the world. She has friends and likes to mind her own business till one night she is walking home from the University and she is suddenly grabbed by an unknown woman played by Annabella Scirroa and she takes a liking to her neck and before any introducing she starts to get stuck in. Whether or not she is a vampire I can't answer as in this entire film of many neck biting moments you do not see one fang throughout so this questions the film whether the film is about Vampires with fangs or vampires without and just like to taste blood. Afterwards changes begin to occur in Kathleen's life and of course her zest for the taste of blood becomes more apart of her life. At first it just starts by her injecting other people's blood into her veins but then the she begins to invite people around to her apartment and really get stuck in. Here her life is turned around by all this and she is taken into a journey of madness. On the way she meets more victims then she finally meets Christopher Walken who is just like her but knows how to control his addiction for blood better than others. More of the so called story unfolds and it just seems this film goes nowhere whatsoever. I don't understand why studio's would give funding to a film like this. All the way through it just talks about redemption and stuff and I don't feel convinced by any of this. I've spoken to some people and they say it's probably his best work but I still think King of New York is his best work to date and if he keeps making films like The addiction it will be his best film for a long time to come. The performances from Lili Taylor was very good but I just got this feeling that she was trying to hard to be her character and just goes on in scenes and doesn't make any sense of it. I suppose if I had been bitten by somebody on the neck then I wouldn't be in the right frame of mind but that's not the point, the point is that Abel Ferrara has thrown out a film that is to short and at 79 minutes running time, you can't be expected to throw out a good enough film with this long a film. Christopher Walken was the best thing about it as his character isn't to much to take in and he actually sounds interesting without be annoying unlike Lili Taylor who just drove me mad throughout cause I don't like her acting at all. The Addiction is the reason why Abel Ferrara won't be remembered in 50 years and if he is then it will be to just remember that he made that crap film The Addiction and was trying to hard. Hopefully King of New York will stand its time, but if you watch Driller Killer which is beyond awful, Bad Lieutenant which is just a shock film without the shocks , King of New York will restore your faith in Ferrara and The Funeral which isn't half bad, but the Addiction is just not what I wanted and neither will you. The question is, is this a vampire film cause I think it wasn't.
Lilly Taylor plays Kathleen, a philosophy student who is quite an outcast to the world. She has friends and likes to mind her own business till one night she is walking home from the University and she is suddenly grabbed by an unknown woman played by Annabella Scirroa and she takes a liking to her neck and before any introducing she starts to get stuck in. Whether or not she is a vampire I can't answer as in this entire film of many neck biting moments you do not see one fang throughout so this questions the film whether the film is about Vampires with fangs or vampires without and just like to taste blood. Afterwards changes begin to occur in Kathleen's life and of course her zest for the taste of blood becomes more apart of her life. At first it just starts by her injecting other people's blood into her veins but then the she begins to invite people around to her apartment and really get stuck in. Here her life is turned around by all this and she is taken into a journey of madness. On the way she meets more victims then she finally meets Christopher Walken who is just like her but knows how to control his addiction for blood better than others. More of the so called story unfolds and it just seems this film goes nowhere whatsoever. I don't understand why studio's would give funding to a film like this. All the way through it just talks about redemption and stuff and I don't feel convinced by any of this. I've spoken to some people and they say it's probably his best work but I still think King of New York is his best work to date and if he keeps making films like The addiction it will be his best film for a long time to come. The performances from Lili Taylor was very good but I just got this feeling that she was trying to hard to be her character and just goes on in scenes and doesn't make any sense of it. I suppose if I had been bitten by somebody on the neck then I wouldn't be in the right frame of mind but that's not the point, the point is that Abel Ferrara has thrown out a film that is to short and at 79 minutes running time, you can't be expected to throw out a good enough film with this long a film. Christopher Walken was the best thing about it as his character isn't to much to take in and he actually sounds interesting without be annoying unlike Lili Taylor who just drove me mad throughout cause I don't like her acting at all. The Addiction is the reason why Abel Ferrara won't be remembered in 50 years and if he is then it will be to just remember that he made that crap film The Addiction and was trying to hard. Hopefully King of New York will stand its time, but if you watch Driller Killer which is beyond awful, Bad Lieutenant which is just a shock film without the shocks , King of New York will restore your faith in Ferrara and The Funeral which isn't half bad, but the Addiction is just not what I wanted and neither will you. The question is, is this a vampire film cause I think it wasn't.