The focus of Hunger is emphatically the death of Bobby Sands, specifically, what happens to his body, viewed from a tragic outside and, to an imaginative extent, a determined inside.
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04/07/09
The Hunger (1983)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:12
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, David Bowie, Dan Hedaya
Director: Tony Scott
Reviews for The Hunger
More style than substance, and perhaps simply an excuse to get Denueve and Susan Sarandon, Miriam's post-Bowie love, in bed together.
11/18/08
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 CriticDeneuve and Sarandon are something else.
11/04/07
A fine example of style over substance -- but the style is so good that it rarely matters.
10/20/07
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
No review available.
11/04/05
No review available.
10/21/05
No review available.
12/18/04
Nearly unwatchable lesbian vampire flick.
12/16/04
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 CriticIn 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 CriticStyle over substance in this vampire drama.
08/20/04
No review available.
07/02/04
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
Slick, but superficial vampire flick that finally collapses on itself.
03/19/03
No review available.
01/30/03
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