Thirst (1979)
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This cold-blooded, thinly wrought horror film has a warm-blooded theme -- the regular imbibing of said substance by a certifiably crazy cult. Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is slowly drawn into this cult against her (and everyone else's) better judgment. Once involved, she discovers that they have sanitized, hospital-like centers where red-blooded individuals are kept zoned out by tranquilizers. Otherwise they might have some objection or another to being essentially imprisoned and immobilized in
Sep 29, 1979 Wide
Dec 9, 2003
Media Home Entertainment
Cast
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Chantal Contouri
Kate Davis -
David Hemmings
Dr. Fraser -
Henry Silva
Dr. Gauss -
Max Phipps
Hodge -
Shirley Cameron
Mrs. Barker -
Rod Mullinar
Derek -
Robert Thompson
Sean -
Walter Pym
Dichter -
Lulu Pinkus
Nurse -
Amanda Muggleton
Martha -
Yvette Rees
Nurse -
Jacqui Gordon
Leah -
Paddy Burnet
Blue Rinse lady -
Stewart Faichney
Security man -
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[U]nlike most exercises in hematic excess--Richard Rodriguez's Planet Terror, for instance, or Tarantino's Kill Bill--Thirst offers not the consolations of camp but the intensity of opera.
Top Critica film from an era where storyline was everything
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