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Thirst
In a story that looks more horrifying and dramatic than a failed medical experiment by Sang-hyun, after that experience, a priest becomes infected by a virus that turns him into a dangerous and deadly vampire. The life of the new priest begins with blood, which seems to be torn between faith and the cruelty of blood that made him ruthless. He now has a new desire for the wife of his childhood friend who has lived with him for so long.
10 August 1986
30 May 1974, Seoul, South Korea
2 April 1958, Gyeongsangnam-do, Chinhae, South Korea
6 January 1945, Chungcheongbuk-do, Cheorwon, South Korea
29 December 1986, Chollanam-do, South Korea
3 October 1967, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
30 December 1955, Busan, South Korea
15 June 1968, Taegu, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
17 January 1967, Gim-hae, South Gyeongsang Povince, South Korea
October 21, 2010
Perhaps no auteur is as suited to the vampire genre as South Korean director Park Chan-wook, a man who has made a career out of films full of sexual perversity, doomed romances and a seemingly insurmountable volume of blood.April 15, 2010
The degrees of shock, the foreshadowing and throwbacks throughout (both visual and in dialogue) all seem diminutive next to the amazing performances by the male and female lead.March 26, 2010
click to read full reviewAugust 29, 2011
Kiddie shows like Twilight and Blood: The Last Vampire pale (you'll excuse the expression) in comparison.August 27, 2009
Thirst begins with great intellectual and artistic promise, then devolves into a repetitious mess of teeth, blades, necks, bites, arterial sprays, sex, sex, sex and death.June 01, 2015
My affection for Thirst has mostly to do with the performance of Kim Ok-vin as Tae-ju, a sullen household slave who's transformed into a ravenous, punishing bloodsucker.August 20, 2009
Thirst keeps coming up against the limitations of its various inspirations like a bumper car on a crowded court. On almost every other level, the film's audaciously entertaining, at times even quite moving. You just have to have the stomach for it.September 10, 2009
What the film is saying, so far as I can tell, is that, if cut, you will bleed. And bleed.October 31, 2010
Boldly erotic and playfully ponderous about sins of the flesh, "Thirst" rips open its bodice, and various veins, with arterial sprays of carnage and carnality. It's a savage, frank, fanged fusion of "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice."September 09, 2009
Thirst is a grim antidote to the sanitized, pale young things of Twilight, Supernatural and True Blood.August 20, 2009
Park aficionados are assured their fix of lurid imagery and baroque plotting, though straight-up horror buffs may get restless during the sluggish and murky middle section; Twilight fans need not apply.October 16, 2009
A rollicking, hysterical splatter-sex-comedy only confirms 'Thirst' as one of the year's more extreme, enjoyable entertainments.