The Hunger

[Psychopath2616]

I rented it tonight for the first time and just now noticed that it was David Bowie on the cover and that Susan Surandon was in this......is it any good?

[edit]

Doesn't get any better :D
Great and very stylish vampire thriller that still needs to be put out on DVD.
Hurry up MGM!!!!

[Giselle]

I really like this movie, not scary but it has an interesting story and you can't beat Sarrandon, Bowie, and Denevue. Plus Bauhaus did the music! Defintely worth a watch Psychopath2616.

[Requiem-for-a-Dream]

Is this flick bloody or gory?

Matt

[skweemkween]

It is the quintessential (spelled wrong?) goth vampire flicks that summed up the goth culture of the 80's. I mean the club in the beginning was SO dead on of that time.

Very slick, stylish, and moody. Kinda like Bowie.

[skanko]

Interesting love affair between Catherine and Susan, yep two dikes getting it on and sucking each others blood amongst other things. TTFN :cool:

[Giselle]

Just to let you know Skanko, we aren't real big on using derogatory slang like "Dykes" on the boards.


I agree completely skweemkween, makes you want to get out the black wet n' wild nail polish!;)

[Jason13thh]

Sorry but I did not like it at all.
It was too contemplative for me.
Stylish yes but it lacks of substence and I don't care for the characters.

[skweemkween]

Giselle - hey babe, I'm already wearin' it !!! AHAHahah.

Jason13- I understand. It is , as I said, the origin of the vapid, boring, pretentious fashion posers that are the vampire goth people. But I did like DAvid Bowie's tortured soul. He was very interesting.

[Jason13thh]

Yes David Bowie was more interesting and he suffers because the character of Deneuve ( french is my mother tongue,btw ) let him die, I like the scene where he gets old very fast, good and cruel scene that - one.

[skweemkween]

Yes Bowie was amazing. But I know what you mean. It was very stunted in it's depth of the characters. But hey - this was the 80's a decade of decedence almost totally devoted to style.

To quote Billy Crystal as his character Fernando: It is better to look good than to feel good.

That 80's quote made on Saturday Night Live pretty much sums up what the 80's were. And as far as Vamps, hell that's their motto.

[BoyScoutKevin]

While I did not particularly care for the movie, great use of light and shadow though, I sure liked it better then the book by Whitley Strieber upon which it is based. In the first pages of the book, the vampires murder a couple of teenagers; therefore, I am now stuck for the next 320 pages of the book, reading about a couple of characters I particularly dislike.

[BorderEevilIII]

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The Hunger I saw on HBO a couple of years ago. I thought it was ggrrreat!
If you like slice em and dice em then this is NOT your movie. The Hunger is very noir like IMO. I got turned on by the music (Bauhaus) that was playing at the club while Deneuve & Bowie was shopping around for dinner. :D
Again, I am seeing a lot of older movies 70-80s horror flicks posted which I am quickly jumping in. The only thing I was not so crazy on was Bowie killing the girl that always visited them. The ending of the movie, VERY cool! :D