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Thirst (2009)

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Reviews Counted:95

Fresh:78

Rotten:17

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: The stylish Thirst packs plenty of bloody thrills to satisfy fans of both vampire films and director Chan Wook Park.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for graphic bloody violence, disturbing images, strong sexual content, nudity and language.

Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Jul 31, 2009 Limited

Box Office: $296,441

Synopsis: Sang-hyun is a priest who cherishes life; so much so, that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest, and a... Sang-hyun is a priest who cherishes life; so much so, that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest, and a blood transfusion is urgently ordered up for him. The blood he receives is infected, so Sang-hyun lives – but now exists as a vampire. Struggling with his newfound carnal desire for blood, Sang-hyun’s faith is further strained when a childhood friend’s wife, Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), comes to him asking for his help in escaping her life. Sang-hyun soon plunges into a world of sensual pleasures, finding himself on intimate terms with the Seven Deadly Sins.

A CJ Entertainment and Focus Features International presentation of a Moho Film production. A Park Chan-wook Film. Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-vin. Thirst. Kim Hae-sook, Shin Ha-kyun. Music by Cho Young-uk. Sound Recordist, Jung Gun. Sound Designed by Kim Suk-won, Kim Chang-sub. Costume Designer, Cho Sang-kyung. Make-up and Hair Designer, Song Jong-hee. Production Designer, Ryu Seong-Hie. Edited by Kim Sang-bum, Kim Jae-bum. Visual Effects Supervisor, Lee Jeon-Hyung. Lighting by Park Hyun-won. Cinematographer, Chung Chung-hoon. Investment Executive, Sean Lee. Associate Producer, Joon H. Choi. Co-Executive Producer, Katharine Kim. Executive Producer, Miky Lee. Produced by Park Chan-wook, Ahn Soo-hyun. Inspired by Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin. Written by Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-kyung. Directed by Park Chan-wook. A Focus Features Release. --© Official Site [More]

Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Ok-bin Kim, Mercedes Cabral

Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Ok-bin Kim, Mercedes Cabral, Eriq Ebouaney, Oh Dal-su, Park In-hwan, Song Young-chang

Director: Chan Wook Park

Director: Chan Wook Park
Screenwriter: Chan Wook Park, Seo-Gyeong Jeong
Producer: Chan Wook Park, Ahn Soo-Hyun
Composer: Young-uk Cho
Studio: Focus Features

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Nov 17, 2009

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  • Region 1
  • Dual Layer
  • Widescreen - 2.35

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  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - Korean
  • Subtitles - French, Spanish
 
 
 
 

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Something must have bored writer/director Chan-wook Park, because the second and third acts of Thirst play like scenes out of a totally different and much more incoherent film.

Full Review Source: Examiner.com | comment Comment
11/17/09
Adam Lippe
Adam Lippe
Examiner.com

What sets Park's film apart from the standard vampire picture has more to do with its tone, characterizations, and its strange blend of lyricism and pitch-black comedy.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
11/04/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Just when you thought you'd seen everything that could possibly be done with vampires, along comes something like Thirst.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
10/29/09
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

A truly bizarre movie, a tragicomedy that Graham Greene might have written in collaboration with Bram Stoker. But it's repetitive and overstays its initial welcome.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
10/20/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Park is clearly an exceptional director capable of being weirdly funny, quirkily fantastical, brutal and sexy, sometimes at one and the same time. There’s no one quite like him.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
10/20/09
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Park directs with his usual eye-catching skill and attention to gruesome detail, and creates a story with strong emotional resonance.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
10/20/09
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

A rollicking, hysterical splatter-sex-comedy only confirms ‘Thirst’ as one of the year’s more extreme, enjoyable entertainments.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
10/16/09
Tom Huddlestone
Tom Huddlestone
Time Out

With its rapacious appetites and forceful directing style, is definitely a vampire film for grown-ups.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
10/16/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]

Not one of Park's best films, but it has bite.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
10/16/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

This fervid extravaganza is easily Park’s best film since Oldboy.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
10/16/09
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

Red blood and black humour spurt hard as Thirst reveals itself to be one of the most deliciously skewed incisions into the vampire romance subgenre.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
10/16/09
Jonathan Crocker
Jonathan Crocker
Little White Lies

There’s plenty to get your teeth into – just a shame you’ve got to wait so long for the main course.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
10/16/09
Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

A baroque shocker of sensuous unease and cinematic excess marbled with veins of jet-black comedy, Thirst is far from a perfect film, but it might still prove to be a great one.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
10/16/09
Matt Glasby
Matt Glasby
Total Film

Chan-wook's film is as gluttonous and stylish as I'm a Cyborg, but fortunately Thirst's renewed appetite for bloodlust and self-annihilation suits the director's pyrotechnics better.

Full Review Source: Filmstar Magazine | comment Comment
10/16/09
Thom Hutchinson
Thom Hutchinson
Filmstar Magazine

While its most dazzling scenes recall David Cronenberg’s The Fly and Schrader’s Catpeople, it topples into self-parody in spells, as if John Waters was remaking In The Realm Of The Senses.

Full Review Source: Uncut Magazine [UK] | comment Comment
10/16/09
Chris Roberts
Chris Roberts
Uncut Magazine [UK]

A fresh spin on the vampire myth resulting in a wildly inventive and blackly comic horror. Pity it's got more padding than the average fat suit.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
10/16/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Gruesome, disturbing, definitely over-long but strangely moving, Thirst brings vivid new ideas to an overworked genre.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
10/16/09
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

Once on course, he is uncontrollable. I don’t mean the hero, I mean the director. Park’s gallows wit and visual inventiveness keep us alert for an hour amid the ramshackle story structuring.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
10/16/09
Nigel Andrews
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

The film is way too long, and quite sick, though Park's demented lyricism will stay with you.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
10/16/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Unleashing torrents of stylishly shot blood-letting he mocks the anaemic approach to the carnal undercurrents of vampire lore favoured by western cinema.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
10/16/09
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman
 
 
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