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Rating:  - Nothing Lasts Forever
Opening scene: Bauhaus performing "Bela Lugosi is Dead" on stage in a cage at a very cool club being visited by a dressed to kill Deneuve and Bowie on the prowl for fresh flesh. They dress cool, drive a very cool car, and live surrounded by the beautiful paintings and sculpture they have collected over the many centuries they have been alive. Great to look at, great to listen too. Music includes Bach's Cello suites, Delibes Lakme(plays while Deneuve tells the music's mythic story of two women to Sarandon who comments "sounds like a love story between two women", Deneuve just smiles).
Sexy, yes. This is a Vampire film with a really good story too though. Deneuve is a Vampire from Egyptian times and Bowie is just her latest lover. They have only been together since the eighteenth century or so. But the problem is that, unlike her, her lovers do not live forever. Bowie becomes aware of this only after awaking one morning to find he is aging. Deneuve is powerless to help him, so he searches for his answer at an institute of aging. Bowies make-up as he goes from a young man in the prime of life to old man in one day is incredible. It is very interesting to see the eternal life and love aspect of the Vampire story as the focus. We find shes been through it all before and so Deneuve wastes no time in finding her next lover, to share the next few hundred years with. Susan Sarandon. And its everything you might imagine. This has gothic appeal but its so stylish that the beauty of it and the fact that there is a solid plot puts it at least a few notches above all the other Vampire movies.
Rating:  - Cool Vampire Flick
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie were cast well as an evil vampire couple. Susan Sarandon was also good in her role as a scientist. The film is about a vampire couple, Miriam(Deneuve) and John(Bowie). John, out of nowhere, starts aging very rapidly and has no idea why. So, he seeks the help of Sarah Roberts. Sarah Roberts (Sarandon) is a scientist who is studying the aging process. However, Sarah is unable to help John and he eventually dies. Sarah is very interested about John's aging problem. So, out of curiosity, she visits Miriam (John's wife), and they form a sexual relationship. Immediately after Sarah and Miriam make love, Sarah feels very ill and has these weird urges. The movie was pretty entertaining for the most part, and I gave it three stars because I had a hard time understanding what was going on by the middle of the movie. You'll like this one if you like sexy horror movies.
Rating: - Softly, brilliantly crafted, but certainly not for everyone
This cult art film classic is the quintessential vampire film of the 1980s and is one of my favorite vampire fliks of all time.THE HUNGER is a very good film, even though, at times, it moves rather slowly. Deneuve plays Miriam, a stone-faced centuries-old vampire who has had a string of lovers of the many years of her life. As the film opens, she and her longtime bloodsucking paramour, John (played by Bowie), are coping with their own mortality. That's right, I said mortality. In THE HUNGER, vampires can die of old age. Bowie's appearence in the film is somewhat brief, but he makes the most of the time he has with a well-developed character. The makeup used to age him into a shriveled old man is complemented by Bowie's ability to play age well, both physically and emotionally. There is a quiet poignancy to the romance of between Miriam and John, but when scientist Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon) visits the Blaylock mansion one day, Miriam's real romance begins. As I mentioned, the movie can sometimes feel slow, but it's well worth sitting through as the film is not so much horror and gore (although when it's bloody, it's nicely bloody), but erotic and intellectual. Sarandon and Denueve are both excellently cast and create some rather arousing scenes together. Although there is little action, there are many themes and ideas to be explored in this story. As such, I would say THE HUNGER is definitely for fans of art films, rather than those who are attracted to Hollywood productions.
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