The Hunger (1983)
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
- Tony Scott
- David Tringham
- William Hassell
- Roger Joseph Pugliese
- Michael Stevenson
- Debbie Vertue
- Julian Wall
- William Eustace
- Ceri Evans
- Whitley Strieber
- Michael Thomas
- James Costigan
Rating: 6.658/10 by 568 users
Alternative Title:
De roofdieren - BE
Les prédateurs - CA
Aima kai pathos - GR
Ha'Ra'av - IL
Голод - SU
千年血后 - TW
Glad po krvi - YU
Glad za krvlju - YU
El ansia - ES
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 36 minutes
Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $10,200,000
Plot Keyword: new york city, based on novel or book, immortality, gay interest, premature aging, research laboratory, animal research
I have to admit that although I've had the DVD forever, simply based on the laurels of the beauty/acting accomplishments of David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, and that nothing I had ever watched by Tony Scott, with the exception of 'Crimson Tide', really gripped me as being cinephilically exceptional. And no, this really isn't either. But I threw it on anyway, and especially considering it was Scott's debut, this wasn't so bad as to make Bram Stoker roll over in his grave. In fact, although perhaps a tad on the paper-thin plot side, it was quite enjoyable, an elegant and sad elegy of the pros and cons of immortality. Yes, it was more style than substance, yet that doesn't always have to be a bad thing. Here, at least, it wasn't, and I for one simply adored the ending.
