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The Hunger

1983

Tony Scott

Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young ...

6.3

5,393

Horror. Romance The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case with John, so his life expectancy is below 24 hours. Desperately he seeks help from the famous Dr. Sarah Roberts. She doesn't really belive his story, but becomes curious and contacts Miriam ... and gets caught in her ban, too.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"An agonizingly bad vampire movie, circling around an exquisitely effective sex scene (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A film of visual sensations (...) The movie reeks with chic, but never, for one minute, takes itself too seriously"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Memorable for its chicly absurd lesbian scene between elegant Deneuve and an unashamed Susan Sarandon (...) All style and no anything else (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"[It] is so bizarre that it possesses a certain perverse appeal."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"[It] plays like an anthology of the most annoying manners of the British mannerist directors"	NEG

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