The Addiction (1995) on Netflix
Kathleen Conklin is a philosophy doctoral candidate at New York University. A vampire who gives her name as Casanova bites her neck, and she begins to shun daylight and food.
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Plot summary
After a lecture on atrocities of the Vietnam War, Kathleen Conklin, a doctoral candidate in philosophy, walks home and is set upon in a stairwell by a vampire who calls herself Casanova. The bite on her neck leaves her unable to bear daylight or eat, and medical tests turn up anemia alone. Jean, another doctoral candidate in her cohort, sees her personality change, and at her apartment Kathleen comes on to the professor supervising her dissertation, then takes cash from his wallet while he sleeps. In the library during finals week she gets to know an anthropology student and goes with her to the student's apartment to study.
Cast
- Michael A. Fellaas Cop
- Louis Katzas Doctor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Addiction (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Abel Ferrara said Peina and Casanova were originally written as a woman and a man respectively. When Christopher Walken read the script he thought Peina was a male character and wanted the part, so Walken was cast as Peina and Annabella Sciorra played Casanova.
- The sequences set inside Peina's home were shot in a loft owned by Julian Schnabel, who allowed director Abel Ferrara to film there.
SPOILER
Director Abel Ferrara, who had struggled with heroin addiction for many years, conceived The Addiction as a Catholic redemption tale in which Kathleen accepts her powerlessness and submits to God before being reborn at the film's conclusion.
