Underplayed Gems

The Hunger (1983)

The Hunger poster
Directed by
Tony Scott
Genre
horror film, erotic film, erotic thriller, vampire film, thriller film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 657 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A vampire woman gives her lovers eternal youth but the gift fades over time. When her latest lover starts aging rapidly, she pursues a doctor who studies aging.

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What happens

The Hunger is a 1983 erotic horror film directed by Tony Scott in his directorial debut, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. An international co-production of the United States and the United Kingdom, the film is a loose adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Whitley Strieber, with a screenplay by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas. Its plot concerns a vampire (Deneuve) who bestows immortality and apparently eternal youth on her lovers. However, the latter proves unreliable, and her lover at the beginning of the film (Bowie) undergoes rapid ageing, leading her to take a new lover, a doctor who specialises in sleep and ageing research (Sarandon). The film's special effects were handled by make-up effects artist Dick Smith. The Hunger was released in the spring of 1983 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Though it received a mixed critical response, the film has accrued a cult following within the goth subculture in the years since its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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