Thirst
Lusting after sinful pleasures.
Lusting after sinful pleasures.
Drama, Horror, Thriller
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2009
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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.
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Runtime:
134 min
Release date:
30 Apr 2009
Country:
KR
Languages:
Korean, English, French
Budget:
$5,000,000
Revenue:
$13,085,023
Awards:
18 wins & 21 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A rollicking, hysterical splatter-sex-comedy only confirms 'Thirst' as one of the year's more extreme, enjoyable entertainments.
– Tom Huddlestone,
Time Out,
16 Oct 2009
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,
10 Sep 2009
fresh:
Thirst is a grim antidote to the sanitized, pale young things of Twilight, Supernatural and True Blood.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Sep 2009
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,
27 Aug 2009
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,
20 Aug 2009