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Old 03-17-2003, 09:04 PM   #1
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Well, I just rented this film. Pretty interesting. Christopher Walken has a part, albeit a small one. Not really scary, but pretty heady stuff. I need to see it again because I was distracted through some of it.

The basic story is about a college student (Lili Taylor) going for her doctorate in philosophy and is bitten by a vampiress. She, of course, developes a need for blood herself and begins to get it all whilst waxing philosophical on her victims. She delves into the nature of evil and how it works. One quote that sticks out is by R.C. Sproul. To paraphrase, "We aren"t sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners." An interesting theory with which I would agree. This idea is prevailent in The Addiction.

As for horror films in general, I have come to feel that they treat evil as what it is more than any other genre. They show us, and convict us that it is something to be feared, something that is wrong. This movie seems to go the extra step in this genre and add commentary. It explains the indifference we have towards it. This isn't a scary horror movie, per se, but an philosophic one.

Anyway, I am not giving a review, exactly, just kind of explaining what to expect and what I saw in this movie. Anyone else seen it?

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Old 07-09-2003, 01:03 AM   #2
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So, did anyone ever see it? Daniel?
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Oh, I seen it a while ago, really quite liked it.

Razormouth have an interesting article on it somewhere.
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Old 07-09-2003, 01:04 PM   #4
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Yeah, I heard about it from Razormouth, methinks.
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I heard about it from Chasing Hats...I haven't seen it yet, but I want to. It seems fairly Calvinistic, which is interesting.
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Yeah, definitely. Sin is not taken lightly, it is presented as painfully real.
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I saw the title of this thread and came here immediately. What is this and how can I get hooked?
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Old 07-10-2003, 12:25 AM   #8
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I saw the title of this thread and came here immediately. What is this and how can I get hooked?
Shame, Amanda... I knew you would see it like that. You need to be clean for awhile before you see this movie.
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