Fresh
In his feature debut, director Tony Scott, brother of Ridley, exhibits the same penchant for eleborate art direction, minimal, humorless dialog and shooting in smoky rooms.
Variety Staff, Variety
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The Hunger
Overview
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Director and cast
- Tony Scott Director
- Catherine Deneuve as Miriam Blaylock
- David Bowie as John Blaylock
- Susan Sarandon as Sarah Roberts
- Cliff DeYoung as Tom Haver
- Beth Ehlers as Alice Cavender
- Dan Hedaya as Lieutenant Allegrezza
- Rufus Collins as Charlie Humphries
- Suzanne Bertish as Phyllis
- James Aubrey as Ron
- Ann Magnuson as Young Woman from Disco
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
62%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The Hunger is an agonizingly bad vampire movie, circling around an exquisitely effective sex scene. Sorry, but that's the way it is, and your reporter has to be honest.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The movie reeks with chic, but never, for one minute, takes itself too seriously, nor does it ever slop over into camp.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
The obsessive conjunction of lesbian sex and flowing blood suggests a deep-seated misogyny, but neither this nor any other theme is registered with enough clarity to offend.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Visual sensualities will have a feast, but you'll have to read Whitley Strieber's novel if you don't want to emerge with a badly scratched head.
Time Out
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