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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780790743721 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790743728 Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 65049 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 05, 2004 Running Time: 96 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 29, 1983 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Catherine 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Slash... Glub... Slurp...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 ... Read More Rating: - Vampires in EgyptThis film is very different from other vampire movies. What makes it different is the music from Schubert used in the soundtrack. Rating:  - Art house horror with David BowieDirected by Ridley Scott's brother, Tony Scott, this 1980s horror vampire film is not a typical vampire movie and yet at the same time is not even a typical motion picture. There is no mistaking though that The Hunger does look great and the lighting camera combination is very gothic urban. The story strands involve two vampires played by David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, who kill people to drink their blood so they can have extended life. However these vampires are not the traditional ... Read More Rating: - Poignant with a touch of freakThis had some pretty hot moments in it and just about any time Catherine Deneuve showed up was hot as hell. She just exudes eroticism. I liked the story very much. An interesting take on vampires. I really got into Bowie's pain. I tried to imagine what it would be like to experience what he was feeling and why. Very sad. It was a trip to see Willem Dafoe looking about all of 17 and I've never seen Dan Hedaya looking so young either. Rating: - One of my all-time favorites...But then I'm kind of a weirdie. If you like vampires, sublime actors, stories of love, betrayal and eventual triumph and/or the idea of two incredibly lovely women having one of the most sensual love/sex scenes in cinema history, this is YOUR movie. Plus the soundtrack is so fabulous, it stands alone... Bauhaus' Bella Lugosi's Dead (Live!), Delibes' Lakme, and Schubert's Trio in E Flat all in one movie? Oh yes indeed. |
