Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
4/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 10/11/2024
The best contemporary vampire movie, and I dare say one of the best vampire movies made ever. "Thirst" doesn't disappoint as a horror story, but it also surprises as a melodrama, a romance, and dark comedy while also leaving room for a metaphor on temptation and absolution.
Rating of
3.5/4
Matthew Brady - wrote on 08/11/2014
This movie makes Twilight look weak. The movie is about a priest whose life takes a turn for the worst after he participates in a medical experiment to find a cure for a deadly disease. Am really not a fan on vampires movies. some times I find a good vampire movies, but most of the time I find really bad ones like twilight and Dracula 2000. Until a found this movie on a film channel at 2 o'clock in the morning, and that movie is thirst. I really liked the tone of this movie and the way it was shot.
Rating of
3.5/4
Alaine - wrote on 12/16/2011
So it starts out as a simple Korean priest turns vampire flick, then it gets different. Lust, ghosts, fantasies, vampire love and vampire helpers, "easy blood" and "fresh blood", betrayals, murders, resurrection, faith healing, drowning, flying, leaping, Mahjong, self-flagellation, realistic sex, strange virus, in-law abuse, a half-wit, warts, skin growths, and much more. The plot twists and re-twists and there are surprises. Some of the special effects are remarkable as they seem ordinary. Righteous ending at daybreak, too.
Rating of
3/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/05/2011
Chan-wook Park is one of those directors everyone should know but not enough people recognize. Thirst is a vampire movie with, well, bite - the story and characters are phenomenal as a priest slowly loses his humanity to vampirism through no fault of his own. There is sex and violence, though nothing too over-the-top. Interesting and recommended.
Rating of
3.5/4
Essi Suomela - wrote on 09/19/2009
In Thirst a failed medical experiment turns a man of faith into a vampire. We follow his journey trying to battle his "disease" as he tries to maintain at least some sense of humanity while turning into a blood craving sex maniac. Thirst represents a different kind of perspective on the vampire phenomenon, where the vampires aren't so romanticized, but are more diseased than anything else. Excellent film!
