Sensation / The Addiction

Sensation / The Addiction (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
184 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1994 - 1995 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Abel Ferrara
Brian Grant

Written By:
Nicholas St. John
Doug Wallace

Actors:
Lili Taylor ..... Kathleen Conklin
Christopher Walken ..... Peina
Annabella Sciorra ..... Casanova
Edie Falco ..... Jean
Paul Calderon ..... Professor
Fredro Starr ..... Black
Kathryn Erbe ..... Anthropology Student
Michael Imperioli ..... Missionary
Jamal Simmons ..... Black's Friend (as Jamel 'RedRum' Simmons)
Robert W. Castle ..... Narrator / Priest (as Father Robert Castle)
Michael A. Fella ..... Cop (as Michael Fella)
Louis Katz ..... Doctor (as Dr. Louis A. Katz)
Leroy Johnson ..... Homeless Victim
Fred Williams ..... Homeless Victim
Avron Coleman ..... Cellist
Eric Roberts ..... Dr. Ian Burton
Kari Wuhrer ..... Lila Reed
Ron Perlman ..... Detective Pantella
Paul Le Mat ..... Mitch Snyder
Claire Stansfield ..... Paula
Tracey Needham ..... Maryann
Kieran Mulroney ..... Denny Sando
Ed Begley Jr. ..... Earl Strauber
Alisa Diane ..... Carrie Reiner
Jason Ross-Azikiwe ..... Detective Holmes
John Morrissey ..... Smoking Detective
Chuck Zito ..... Bartender

Synopsis:

The Addiction (1995)
Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral 'Art' film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst. Driven by her merciless condition, she attacks several of her pretentious friends and classmates (even her professor) and mainlines their blood like heroin. Just as she becomes more bold in seeking prey on the streets of New York, she is waylaid by a potential victim -- actually a sophisticated vampire himself named Peina (Christopher Walken), who chooses to control his own blood addiction through fasting and meditation. Seeming to regain her self-control, she eventually completes her graduate thesis (helped by a bit of vampire nepotism) and holds a party to celebrate, inviting the entire faculty as well as members of her new 'family' to join in the festivities. Although the parallels to heroin addiction are in plain view, this is also a study in the essential evil of humankind -- a theme evident in much of Ferrara's work.

Sensation (1994)
In this taut erotic chiller, a professor's pretty assistant has no idea that her involvement in his investigation of ESP will put her life in danger. The problem stems from her own natural psychic ability, one that it is so strong that she can pick up the distress and memories of others, even dead people. The assistant's troubles really begin when she begins identifying with a recently slain coed.

The Addiction (1995)
Kathleen Conklin was just a normal student attending college. While walking home one night she is dragged off the street and bitten by a strange woman. Soon Kathleen goes from being a normal student to being a vampire. Kathleen's need for blood is similar to a drug addict's need for drugs, and we watch as she goes from one fix to the next.

Sensation (1994)
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 08 October, 2010.

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