The Hunger
John (David Bowie) and Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) are two immortal vampires, who thirst on human flesh with their Egyptian crucifix-shaped necklaces/daggers. John has been noticing lately that he's aging very quickly, his hair even falling out. He seeks the help of a beautiful scientist, Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon), whose studies are on longetivity (the rapid age increase at young ages, ending in an early death), but while sitting in a waiting room, he rapidly becomes even older.
When he finally catches up with the scientist, she doesn't even recognize him and is shocked at the truth when she figures it out. John begs his partner to kill him, but she's unable to, and he finally dies, his body put into a coffin, along with many others in a dark chamber, filled with white doves.
Desperately trying to find John, Sarah finally uncovers his residence, but is told by Miriam that he's on a visit to Switzerland. Sarah then becomes entangled in a love affair with Miriam, and she soon becomes a vampire as well. Obviously very puzzled and maddened by the strange happening over her body and mind, Sarah ends up in a bloody end with Miriam, Miriam's dead lovers coming back for revenge.
I had high hopes for this film, particularly because of the music group Bauhaus appearing at the beginning of the film in a disco performing Bela Lugosi is Dead, which I saw as a music video on the MTV2 music television channel. Although, I was sorely disappointed after the beginning segment, since the rest of the movie is just plain boring. Some might find this as a cult classic, but I didn't enjoy it very much at all. I enjoyed some of the weird visions and illusions which made it seem sometimes like a very bizarre music video, which seems kind of unusual for 1983.
The Showtime cable TV series The Hunger was spawned from the Tony Scott-directed film and is more entertaining to me, and has David Bowie appear and sing in some episodes. Check the film out, if you like Bauhaus, vampires, or really artsy imagery, but it just didn't really capture my attention too much.
