

The Addiction
The dark is their sunlight. What makes them different is what keeps them alive.
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
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6.5/10
333 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $302.4K
- Language
- English
- new york city
- vampire
- philosophy
- addiction
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival21 Jan 1995
- TheatricalNR6 Oct 1995
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1818 Apr 1997
- Physical18VHS27 Apr 1998
- Physical18DVD30 Jun 2003
- Physical18Arrow Video 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray9 Dec 2024
FranceFR
- Theatrical10 Apr 1996
- Physical24 Mar 2021
- TV12Ciné+ Festival4 Oct 2026
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival18 Feb 1995
- Theatrical1627 Mar 1997
SpainES
- Theatrical1831 Mar 1997
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The Addiction was released on 6 October 1995.
Audience reviews
2- G5/10
Gimly
11/20/2016
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._
- D6/10
Dsnake1
10/11/2019
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 heavy-handed that the film loses sight of the fact it's a horror film. I'd argue it's thought piece first and horror film se…
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