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.
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... [More]
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Ok-bin Kim, Mercedes Cabral
Director: Chan Wook Park
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Reviews for Thirst
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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 |
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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 |
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3/4 |
Just when you thought you'd seen everything that could possibly be done with vampires, along comes something like Thirst. Full Review |
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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 |
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3/5 |
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 |
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3.5/5 |
Park directs with his usual eye-catching skill and attention to gruesome detail, and creates a story with strong emotional resonance. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A rollicking, hysterical splatter-sex-comedy only confirms ‘Thirst’ as one of the year’s more extreme, enjoyable entertainments. Full Review |
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With its rapacious appetites and forceful directing style, is definitely a vampire film for grown-ups. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Not one of Park's best films, but it has bite. Full Review |
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4/5 |
This fervid extravaganza is easily Park’s best film since Oldboy. Full Review |
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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 |
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There’s plenty to get your teeth into – just a shame you’ve got to wait so long for the main course. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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 |
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3.5/5 |
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 |
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3/5 |
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 |
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3/5 |
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 |
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4/5 |
Gruesome, disturbing, definitely over-long but strangely moving, Thirst brings vivid new ideas to an overworked genre. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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 |
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3/5 |
The film is way too long, and quite sick, though Park's demented lyricism will stay with you. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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 |
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