{"id":8974,"date":"2023-09-29T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2023-09-29T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:11:24","slug":"the-hunger-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=8974","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was prompted by that podcast to watch The Hunger<\/a>, a movie which inexplicably I’d never even heard of, even though it has David Bowie and Susan Sarandon in a lookalike contest, vying for[1] the affections of an Egyptian vampire. Vampiress? It is<\/em> usefully descriptive, but I think it may be more reductive than it is descriptive.<\/p>\n

So anyway, first she loves David Bowie, and then she apparently doesn’t, and then he experiences unforeseen (by him, at least) side effects, and meanwhile in what is maybe too much of a coincidence for how precisely similar Ms. Sarandon is to Mr. Bowie, she (the vampire) meets her (the sister of Chris Sarandon, who also once played a vampire, so that has to be weird at Sarandon family Thanksgivings) and feels-slash-creates an immediate connection to Bowie’s replacement. And then dramatic events unfold, but almost certainly not the ones you’re thinking of. Also, sexy-time events unfold, and these are<\/em> the ones you’re thinking of, since all vampiresses are lesbians, at least in the movies.<\/p>\n

You know what the movie really suffered from? If I hadn’t seen Let the Right One In<\/a> first. There are some pretty crucial differences, not least of which is that this one is a little less plot driven than that one. Honestly, I think that’s why<\/em> this was the wrong order. Because if I’m thinking of a Scandinavian movie which had snow as one of the three main characters and yearning for a similar movie to please get on with having something, anything, happen<\/em>, well, you can see how that’s a bad sign.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I didn’t like The Hunger<\/em>, it’s that it didn’t meet my unjust expectations. If you want to watch a movie in which people mostly stare longingly at each other, punctuated by short bursts of violence and\/or medical research, but also all the longing stares are performed by impossibly attractive androgynes?<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, that’s every David Bowie movie, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

[1] The summary blurbs they put in imdb and atop movies on streaming services, etc., would have you believe this “vying” thing is accurate, but I don’t think it was. Catherine Deneuve seemed strictly serial to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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