Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Catherine Deneuve
as Miriam Blaylock
David Bowie
as John Blaylock
Susan Sarandon
as Dr. Sarah Roberts
Cliff DeYoung
as Tom Haver
Dan Hedaya
as Lieutenant Allegrezza
Beth Ehlers
as Alice Cavender
Rufus Collins
as Charlie Humphries
Suzanne Bertish
as Phyllis
James Aubrey
as Ron
Ann Magnuson
as Young Woman from Disco
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Review of The Hunger 1983
Admittedly, this is not a very good movie. Its plot is meandering and ill-paced, the ending is questionable, the characters not particularly well delineated, the eroticism a little (or a lot) shallow and self serving. Yet, it has one merit: its aesthetic, the very embodiment of the core Goth experie
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