The Hunger
by Tony Scott
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Actor: Beth Ehlers, Catherine Deneuve, Cliff De Young, David Bowie, Susan SarandonDirector: Tony Scott
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Editor: Pamela Power
Producer: Richard Shepherd
Writer: Ivan Davis
Writer: James Costigan
Writer: Michael Thomas
Writer: Whitley Strieber
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Hunger
DVD Review: Best seducion scene ever!
Summary: 4 Stars
The scene where Miriam seduces Sarah while playing Lakme on the piano is the BEST seduction scene in film history! Miriam's subtle facial expressions, cleavage, and soft voice are delightfully erotic. Catherine Deneuve is genius, erotic, and gorgeous in this scene. Sarandon played her part perfectly as well, innocent yet willing as the seduction began to draw her in.DVD Review: Sumptuous treat
Summary: 4 Stars
The Hunger is my favorite vampire movie and one of my favorite 80s movies. It has the vibe of that self-indulgent decade all over it and director Tony Scott's first foray into film relies heavily on his commercial background. The shadows moving across the screen, the billowing drapes, the sparse dialogue, the wonderfully evocative musical pieces - Scott's movie screams mood. This works for me while it aggravates others. If you approach this film as if you were seeing an art house film instead of a major production, I think it works best. Even Sarandon, in the commentary, says that she took this role because it was not predictable or safe and felt that it was better to fail trying something a bit out of the ordinary than to walk through something boring and innocuous. To that end, The Hunger is not a failure at all, but rather a successful, unique and luxurious take on the traditional vampire genre. I'd even sub-categorize it is a romance/horror because so much of the film is devoted to the concept of love's questionable endurance and the pain therein. Either way, I'd much rather revel in this fresh approach, even if it is often little more than art for art's sake instead of a clever and engaging plot than the God-awful Coppola version or even the John Hughes-ish smarminess of The Lost Boys et al.
The Hunger is a big decadent ?clair; full of sweet sin and beautiful to look at. Take a bite.
DVD Review: Vampires, upmarket fragrance ad style - A real missed opportunity here!
Summary: 2 Stars
Style overwhelms, not only substance, but plotting. And it's truly unfortunate, because the film is perfectly cast, and the source material has a much stronger story than this gauzy, uninvolving, narratively confused (however pretty to look at) mess can even hint at. Tony Scott was making the transition here from Diet Pepsi commercials to mass-market studio trash hits like 'Top Gun' and 'Beverly Hills Cop II,' and one really wishes he'd been given less promising material to ruin with his characteristically vapid and superficial touch.
That said, the film does have its visually and aurally compelling qualities, good actors badly wasted, and one intriguing sex scene - but the storytelling is truly inept. When I first saw this I couldn't guess from it at the time what a strong plot had been pretty much buried under shots that capture a desired look but not the drama or narrative thrust of a scene, and vague, flashy but flaccid editing. This COULD have been an involving, intelligent thriller with a tight, unusual story and rich character work. Even without having read the book, I could tell something important was missing (story, motivations, characters who do more than just pose in shafts of misty light, anything relating all of this to known human experience and emotions, a sense of involvement...).
Required viewing for goths and vampire fetishists, not so much for the rest of us. That said, this isn't the most offensive way to kill 90 minutes. Deneuve and Sarandon DO get it on, sort of - and that may be worth at least a rental for some folks. Scott also manages to conjure up a certain mood (and absolutely NOTHING else), that can maybe raise this to the level of a better-than-average music video (stretched to ridiculous length). Just don't expect any real meat from this pretty set of bones, because there really, REALLY isn't any. Hunger, indeed!
Paul Schrader's 'Cat People' remake falls into the same kind of slickly-produced 80s sex-horror chic corral, and suffers many of the same pitfalls, but it's a much more satisfying film all around for my money. As stylish, erotic lesbian vampire subgenre entries go, 'Daughters of Darkness' and 'Vampyres' are still the reigning queens.
DVD Review: Gothic and sensual
Summary: 4 Stars
This picture has Images and symbols that transmit something special to the public. Also, have a nice soundtrack. DVD Review: Slash... Glub... Slurp...
Summary: 5 Stars
THE HUNGER is one of the best vampire movies around. The mysterious, bloodsucking Blaylocks (Catherine Deneuve as Miriam and David Bowie as John) live a non-life of luxury and debauched serial-murder / feeding. Doctor Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon) gets mixed up w/ the deadly duo when John begins aging at an incredibly accelerated rate. Dr. Roberts might be able to help him since she happens to be doing research into slowing the aging process. Miriam falls for Sarah and makes plans to replace the now-decrepit John. The seduction / consumation scenes between Miriam and Sarah are as elegant as they are HOT! I've always loved Ms. Sarandon's eyes, and she displays quite a bit more here! Bowie is excellent in his ill-fated role. THE HUNGER stands as a vampire masterpiece...
Description of The Hunger
The egyptian vampire lady miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls dont age.. Until miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately thats currently the case with john so his life expectancy is below 24 hours. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/13/2005 Starring: David Bowie Dan Hedaya Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R Director: Tony ScottCatherine Deneuve and David Bowie are rich, beautiful, and oh-so chic as denizens of the night. Dressed in sleek outfits and stylish sunglasses, they haunt rock & roll clubs on the prowl for young blood, whom they bring home to their impossibly luxurious mansion for a late-night snack. Being a vampire never looked more sexy, but there's a price: Bowie starts to age so fast he wrinkles up in the waiting room of a doctor's (Susan Sarandon) office. The agelessly elegant Deneuve, evoking Delphine Seyrig's Countess Bathory from Daughters of Darkness, is perfectly cast as a millenniums-old bloodsucker who seeks a new mate in Sarandon and seduces her in a sunlight-bathed afternoon of smooth, silky sex. Tony Scott's (Ridley's brother) directorial debut, adapted from the Whitley Strieber novel, revises the vampire myth with Egyptian inflections and removes all references to garlic and crosses and wooden stakes--these bloodsuckers can even walk around in the daylight--but the ties between blood and sex are as strong as ever. Scott's background as an award-winning commercial director is evident in every richly textured frame and his densely interwoven editing, but the moody atmosphere comes at the expense of dramatic urgency. At times the film is so languid it becomes mired in its hazy, impeccably designed visual style. In its own way, The Hunger is the perfect vampire film for the '80s, all poise and attitude and surface beauty. Sarandon talks candidly about the film in the documentary The Celluloid Closet. --Sean Axmaker
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