Fresh
A rollicking, hysterical splatter-sex-comedy only confirms 'Thirst' as one of the year's more extreme, enjoyable entertainments.
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out
Thirst
Lusting after sinful pleasures.
2009 · 2h 14m · R
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Park Chan-wook
Overview
A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Rotten
What the film is saying, so far as I can tell, is that, if cut, you will bleed. And bleed.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
Thirst is a grim antidote to the sanitized, pale young things of Twilight, Supernatural and True Blood.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
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.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
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.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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