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Thirst
This is Korean director Chan Wook Park's film. It is about vampires. Like I said about vampire movies, I consider the entire premise of vampires based on superstition. They are silly creatures, however much you try to dress them up as science, as a result of some kind of viral epidemic. In science and science-fiction, you start from the fundamental premise and work out the consequences. You don't work backwards by trying to explain each and every odd piece of vampire lore.I was going to pass by this movie without comment. A Korean movie with an Asian cast about vampires! *rolls eyes*. A Catholic priest volunteers himself as an experimental test subject for drugs to cure some horrific disease. He survives the treatment that 200 others die of, and turns into a blood-sucking vampire with the entire suite of abilities - superstrength, solarphobia, immortality, ability to fly, bloodthirst, minus the fangs. He finds that he cannot resist the temptation of the flesh. But his conscience calls, and so he compromises
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