The Hunger (1983)
The film tells a haunting tale of an eternal couple, John and Miriam who suffer from an incessant desire for human flesh. When John quickly deteriorates into a horrible living death, and Miriam sets her sights on Sarah, a lovely young scientist.
4 January 1956, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
11 July 1957, Northampton, England, UK
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
28 May 1932, Toronto, Canada
7 August 1951, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
26 October 1947, Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
12 February 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 September 1958, London, England, UK
11 August 1935, New York City, New York, USA
23 July 1968, Queens, New York, USA
30 December 1964, London, England, UK
8 January 1947, Brixton, London, England, UK
28 April 1954, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
28 August 1947, Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria [now Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria]
11 July 1955
4 October 1946, New York City, New York, USA
April 07, 2009
The focus of Hunger is emphatically the death of Bobby Sands, specifically, what happens to his body, viewed from a tragic outside and, to an imaginative extent, a determined inside.
November 18, 2008
More style than substance, and perhaps simply an excuse to get Denueve and Susan Sarandon, Miriam's post-Bowie love, in bed together.
November 18, 2008
A slick, largely empty visual exercise with vague thematic overtones about a clash between American and European culture.
May 14, 2013
Vampire movies were always cool, but it took The Hunger to make them modern.
August 30, 2004
The movie reeks with chic, but never, for one minute, takes itself too seriously, nor does it ever slop over into camp.
June 24, 2013
As good a horror film in the most pure, rarefied sense of "horror" that the '80s produced in English.
January 01, 2000
The obsessive conjunction of lesbian sex and flowing blood suggests a deep-seated misogyny, but neither this nor any other theme is registered with enough clarity to offend.
June 24, 2006
Visual sensualities will have a feast, but you'll have to read Whitley Strieber's novel if you don't want to emerge with a badly scratched head.
March 08, 2011
Bloody lesbian-vampire story is stylish, but no Twilight.
October 23, 2004
The Hunger is an agonizingly bad vampire movie, circling around an exquisitely effective sex scene. Sorry, but that's the way it is, and your reporter has to be honest.
September 26, 2016
A film with legendary cast and photograph. Underestimated at the time, but like any other cult movies, was able to find its audience. [Full review in Spanish]
November 18, 2008
In his feature debut, director Tony Scott, brother of Ridley, exhibits the same penchant for eleborate art direction, minimal, humorless dialog and shooting in smoky rooms.
