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Watch out – a bloodsucking fiend is stalking the highways and by-ways of lower Manhattan… and she has a PhD! Abel Ferrara’s vampire mini-epic puts Lili Taylor through an ordeal that’s harrowing, transformational and either profound or pretentious depending on how you roll with existential philosophy. We acknowledge that Ferrara is a good judge of actor-flesh: sharing in the theory-speak and blood-soaked grue are Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, and Kathryn Erbe.

The Addiction

Blu-ray

Arrow Video USA

1995 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 82 min. / Street Date June 26, 2018 / Available from Arrow Video

Starring: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon, Fredro Starr, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Imperioli, Jamal Simmons, Robert W. Castle, Michael Fella.

Cinematography: Ken Kelsch

Film Editor: Mayin Lo

Production design: Charles Lagola

Original Music: Joe Delia

Written by Nicholas St. John

Produced by Denis Hann, Fernando Sulichin

Directed by Abel Ferrara

By the time Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction came along,...

Reverend Robert W. Castle—an Episcopalian priest and activist for social justice, whose family connection to a major American filmmaker propelled him into a late-life side career as a film actor—has died at the the age of 83. A self-described “child of God and Jersey City,” the combative and charismatic Father Castle began his career as rector at St. John’s Episcopal Church in New Jersey, from 1960 to 1968. During that time, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and protested the Vietnam War, and availed himself to organizations such as the Black Panthers. (Castle once mortgaged his ...