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I watched Thirst a few years back, and man, I recommend it wholeheartedly. I've been trying to get my wife to watch it for a long time, but she's really not into scary movies. I've been insisting that it's really not scary, it's just a great movie.
Thirst (Korean: 박쥐; literally "bat") is a 2009 horror film written, produced and directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on the 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola , [ 5 ] the film stars Song Kang-ho as Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest who turns into a vampire as a result of a failed medical experiment, and falls in love with Tae-ju ( Kim Ok ...
Oct 5, 2023 · This South Korean horror film tells the story of a Catholic priest who becomes afflicted with a powerful thirst for blood after a failed medical experiment. It delves into themes of desire, morality, and the human condition, while also pushing the boundaries of conventional storytelling.
Jul 31, 2024 · Park Chan-wook Gave the New Korean Wave Its Great Vampire Movie. 15 years later, Thirst remains disturbing, gruesome, and oh so sexy. In the late 1990s, South Korean cinema experienced a major...
Thirst is a much different film compared to Parks more gory films, like his Vengeance Trilogy. This film while still having its gory moments has much more of a comical side to it. The main character is Priest Sang-hyeon.
Aug 12, 2009 · Now comes “Thirst,” a blood-drenched vampire film about, unexpectedly, a Roman Catholic priest. The priest is a deeply good man, which is crucial to the story: He dies in the first place because he volunteered as a subject for a deadly medical experiment.
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Jul 13, 2009 · But even if Thirst isn’t the second coming of the vampire film, it is a pretty decent horror movie. It tends towards the goofy and gory, rather than the dramatic and scary.
