Thirst
No Longer Playing
2009 134 min
In Korean with English subtitles
No longer mired in the ultraviolence of his Vengeance Trilogy, but not yet the mature master filmmaker of Decision to Leave, Thirst (2009) was made during a transitional period for Korean New Wave legend Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden). Heightened emotion, devious schemes, Song Kang-ho as a vampiric Catholic priest who drinks from the blood bags of coma patients like a Capri Sun — this movie has it all, and then some! Co-starring Kim Ok-bin (The Villainess) as the downtrodden wife of one of Song’s childhood friends, Thirst is a bizarre, bloody, and ravishingly sensual vampire film that takes the horny cinema revival to literal new heights.
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