The Addiction

“The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive.”

Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor) is a philosophy doctoral student in New York who wants to understand evil well enough to reason her way past it. A woman bites her on the street, and she turns into a vampire, feeling a thirst for blood she cannot explain away. Abel Ferrara shot it in black and white, and Kathleen, with Peina (Christopher Walken) as a guide, tries to keep her mind in charge of a body that has stopped listening.