More style than substance, and perhaps simply an excuse to get Denueve and Susan Sarandon, Miriam's post-Bowie love, in bed together.
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11/18/08
The Hunger (1983)
44 %
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Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 11
Rotten:14
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Director Tony Scott's cult classic tells the story of Miriam (Catherine Denueve) and John (David Bowie), an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. Taking John as... [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, David Bowie, Dan Hedaya
Director: Tony Scott
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Reviews for The Hunger
A slick, largely empty visual exercise with vague thematic overtones about a clash between American and European culture.
11/18/08
In his feature debut, director Tony Scott, brother of Ridley, exhibits the same penchant for eleborate art direction, minimal, humorless dialog and shooting in smoky rooms.
11/18/08
Top Critic
Visual sensualities will have a feast, but you'll have to read Whitley Strieber's novel if you don't want to emerge with a badly scratched head.
06/24/06
The Hunger is an agonizingly bad vampire movie, circling around an exquisitely effective sex scene. Sorry, but that's the way it is, and your reporter has to be honest.
10/23/04
Top Critic In The Hunger, like in that ludicrous advertisement for Britney Spears’s Curious perfume, sexual desire simply provokes postmodern psychotropic episodes.
10/12/04
The movie reeks with chic, but never, for one minute, takes itself too seriously, nor does it ever slop over into camp.
08/30/04
Top Critic
Director Scott spends more time on the visuals than plot and character development, so don't expect to understand much, but do enjoy the luxurious interior decor and eye-candy sunsets.
03/30/04
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