Taylor is a philosophy student in New York who is bitten by a vampire (Annabella Sciorra) while she's walking home from class. Her fellow student and friend (Edie Falco) watches in horror as Taylor seems to disintegrate from a healthy young woman into a strung out junkie. Little does Falco know that Taylor is a junkie... FOR BLOOD.
Taylor preys on some strangers, her professor (Paul Calderon), and eventually meets up with Christopher Walken, perfectly cast as an older, more experienced vampire, who preys on her.
Most of the movie is taken up with Taylor's observations of herself and the world around her as she goes through the painful transformation from regular human to creature of the night. She has no reflection, can't go out in the sunlight, craves blood, all that good stuff. But, she's a philosophy student with a predisposition to examine the hell out of her own existence, so there's a lot of intellectual (or maybe pseudo-intellectual) babble padding out the run time. This is simultaneously part of the movie's charm, and a drawback -- you get the impression it's all meant super seriously, but after sitting through enough of it, it starts to play as satire.
Watching the movie I wondered if it was an inspiration for A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, a similarly black and white vampire flick that draws parallels between vampirism and drug addiction. I prefer A GIRL WALKS HOME, but THE ADDICTION was still a unique, artsy take on the old myth with some great performances and cinematography.
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