Park Chan-wook
Émile Zola,
Park Chan-wook,
Chung Seo-kyung
Song Kang-ho,
Kim Ok-bin,
Hee-jin Choi
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.
2009
South Korea
Korean
English
134 mins
Horror