Thirst

Thirst (Bakjwi), the 2009 vampire foreign film written and directed by Park Chan-wook is a story of a priest who volunteers for a secret medical experiment that will hopefully wipe out a deadly virus. The experiment goes awry, and the priest has to get a blood transfusion that happens to be infected turning him into a vampire. It seems to tell the tale of a tortured soul (the priest) who find himself seeking pleasures of the flesh and all the things a priest shouldn’t do.

I’m not sure this sounds like an interesting vampire plot for people like me who feed on classic lore with shadowy willows, dusty lairs, misty graveyards, and flamboyantly glamorous vamps, but I haven’t seen the film yet, so I’ll wait to review it.

Photo Credit: IMDB photos from Thirst

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