The Addiction (1995)
Directed by Abel Ferrara
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
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And it might be objected that the vampire-junkie parallel has already been done to (un)death, notably in Abel Ferrara's The Addiction .
The film is all the more impressive in that it is consciously put together out of the hoariest clichés - drinking blood, improbably extended life cycles, the connection (à la Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction ) between vampirism and the heroin lifestyle.
And surely Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction had said everything there was to say on the equation of vampirism and the junkie lifestyle?
It's no Horror of Dracula or Near Dark, but it's recommended.
Unlike the absurd pseudo-Gothic of "Interview with the Vampire" or Abel Ferrara's slightly more inventive "The Addiction," the setting of "Blade" is ingeniously evoked, at once wildly unreal and entirely believable.