Director Chan-Wook Park and his SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE star Kang-ho Song reunite for this thriller about a young priest who turns into a vampire. When the highly religious Sang-Hyun volunteers himself to be a test subject for a new vaccine, the procedure turns him into a vampire with little regard for his previous beliefs, meaning that his childhood friend’s wife--and her neck-- are no longer off limits.
Review 1:
"[T]he film is tightly knitted with echoing motifs....[Kim Ok-vin's] eyes express everything between yes and no, and she is demonically able to shift through a whole lexicon of contradictory emotions in one blink."
Source: Film Comment
07/01/2009
Review 2:
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here is no denying that THIRST casts a hypnotic visual spell over its vampiric goings-on."
Source: Box Office
07/23/2009
Review 3:
"[A] rare vampire movie with serious intellectual heft, ravishing undead, biting passion and a healthy splash of irony as well as iron in all that spilled blood..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
07/31/2009
Review 4:
"It is a bloodstained horror movie, a dark comedy, a noirish psychodrama of crime and punishment, a melodrama of mad love, a freehanded literary adaptation and, of course, a vampire movie."
Source: New York Times
07/31/2009
Review 5:
"Fans of vampire movies are not likely to see anything more graphic, extreme or twisted than THIRST."
Source: USA Today
07/31/2009
Review 6:
"[A] gaudy, daring, operatic, and bloody funny provocation of a melodrama from Park Chan-wook....THIRST is gorgeous, every shot a keeper, even as blood flows in rivers and hell beckons." -- Grade: A-
Source: Entertainment Weekly
07/29/2009
Review 7:
3 stars out of 4 -- "Movies exist to cloak our desires in disguises we can accept, and there is an undeniable appeal to THIRST."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
08/13/2009
Review 8:
"[I]ts turgid pace creates a queasy fascination all its own, drawing viewers into an ever-darkening locus of sin and obsession..." -- Grade: B
Source: A.V. Club
07/30/2009
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