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THE ADDICTION



Kathleen Conklin, a young philosophy student at New York University, is attacked
by a woman, who tells her "order me to go away" and, when the frightened Kathleen
is unable to do so, bites her neck and drinks her blood. Kathleen develops several
of the traditional symptoms of vampirism, including aversion to daylight, but the
film's main focus is on her moral degradation. The film opens with a narrative of
the My Lai massacre, and the vampires repeatedly resort to the strategy of blaming
their victims for not being strong enough to resist them. As one of Kathleen's
victims weeps incredulously over the damage, Kathleen coldly informs her: "It's
not my actions but your incredulity that needs examination here." At her
graduation party, she says "I'd like to share a little bit of what I've learned"
and savages the neck of the nearest person, precipitating a bloody, chaotic
vampire rampage...