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Saturday, January 18, 2014

The Hunger (1983)

"The Hunger" is a sexy, smooth vampire film staring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. At it's core, the film is about addiction and making the choice to live with that addiction or not. Unfortunately the ending ruins this concept but that's what happens when the "Power's that Be" want to rewrite the script. The movie is beautifully filmed in gorgeous settings and dark night clubs, paired with the perfect score of haunting 80's rock and classical musical movements. This movie should be considered a must see for vampire and horror fans who appreciate the 1980's and dark sensual films.


Miriam and John are vampires stalking the nights in New York City. Miriam is the master, forever young and beautiful, while John was once mortal, being turned into a vampire and marrying Miriam in 18th century France. While Miriam remains immortal and untouched, John begins to suddenly age rapidily one day.He seeks the professional help from Dr. Sarah Roberts, an expert in the aging process of primates. She thinks that John is just a hypochonraic at first but comes to realize that there's something more to the story when she sees that he's aged decades while he sat in her waiting room throughout the day. He leaves in disgust and goes to his home that he shares with Miriam. He loses control and kills and drinks the blood of young Alice, a violin student that he is teaching, hoping that her blood will slow the aging. It doesn't and when Miriam comes home and finds John and what he's done, she carries him up to the attic where there are multiple coffins laying about the room. She reveals that John will live forever in a state of eternal living death and she asks the others in the coffins to "take care of him tonight". The coffins are filled with her past lovers and Miriam is distraught that Alice is dead because she was being groomed to be her next lover. Sarah, feeling guilty and curious about John, goes to visit the apartment and meets Miriam. There is an instant chemistry between the two and Miriam decides that Sarah will be her next campanion. But will Sarah want the lifestyle of a vampire and the dire cost of eternal life, and does she have the will to resist and ancient and immortal vampire?


John and Miriam


Sarah in a bloodlust

Miriam tells John the truth

Betrayal and heartache

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