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Thirst: Chan Wook Park tackles vampires . . .

Posted by mr grits on December 7, 2009 at 14:28:36:
With revenge out of the way his latest subject is the undead told in a most unconventional way.

First off, in most all Korean movies of note, it seems there is a strong reference to Catholicism. (Were they the first missionaries there?} The story starts with a young priest who volunteers for a research project that is fighting a new kind of virus very similar to Ebola. Sang travels to Africa and enters the experiment, succumbs to the illness (blisters, sores, and bleeding), then miraculously survives! One out of 500! This makes him a hero at his local church and people camp outside the compound just to receive his prayers of healing.

Soon he discovers that the vaccine has caused a thirst for human blood and without blood the disease's boils and bleeding returns. He then begins looking for ways to procure blood without violence and much of it leads to laughs. Sang then renews friendship with a family from his youth and he suddenly discovers a yearning for pleasures of the flesh incited by his old, idiot friend's wife. Their first love scene is a different kind of eroticism. She then falls for him and helps Sang procure blood but decides it would be easier for her to help if she becomes a vampire also. The results are not what Sang expected....

This Park film has more irony and laughs than any of his other films and I found it enjoyable even if two hours long. Park fans will recognize a lot of the actors from his previous films and they are all used to perfection. This story certainly puts a new wrinkle on vampires.