ShangLuda Admirable film.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

SnoopyStyle Catholic priest Sang-hyeon volunteers for an experiment in hospital. The experiment fails and he's infected with the deadly virus. After getting blood transfusions, he miraculously recovers. He becomes infatuated with his childhood friend Kang-woo's wife Tae-ju. He gets sick and finds himself drinking human blood.This has some great erotic bloody sexual vampire scenes. It gets weird. I do find the story meanders a bit. That's probably part of poetry that I don't get but the movie has some captivating scenes. Kang-ho Song is a great lead. He is so magnetic and so charismatic. This may not be everybody's taste. It is slower than most modern horrors. It's a different kind of vampire movie.

dillonpsd Maybe I don't get the overacting of Asian film's but this movie sucked! Besides being over acted and having the most disturbingly annoying noises (slurp slurp) this movie was horrid. I watched it after seeing a high review of a 7.1, which is great for a horror film.Sex scenes were so annoying, and I was expecting a kick ass vampire movie. Instead I got nothing but some Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon sex show with humans who liked to drink blood.Save yourself a headache and embarrassment!I hated Twighlight, and I would rather watch that movie 1000x before watching this crap again. It was so beyond boring, confusing, and a total waste of time.3/10

billcr12 A Korean vampire movie with a twist, with a Catholic priest as the blood sucker. Sang- hyun is the not so good father, and he works at a hospital, helping the sick patients. He becomes infected with a virus and the treatment turns the reverend into a vampire.Before the transition, Sang-hyun develops miraculous healing powers and his parish church becomes very popular with sick people looking for cures. He falls for an old friend's wife, Tae-ju. Working at the hospital gives him the ability to obtain blood from transfusion packs. Although reluctant at first, the priest and Tae get physical, breaking the rules of the mother church. He moves into Tae's mother's house to be close to her. One day, he sees bruises on her and assumes the husband beat her. He takes the spouse to a lake and drowns him. Sang and Tae continue their sinful ways and share nightmare's about her dead spouse. She admits that her husband did not abuse her and asks him to kill her as punishment. He does so, but she returns as a vampire with a voracious appetite and a brutally violent streak. The couple seek blood to survive, but the priest has serious guilt and convinces Tae to go on the run with him. The ending is typical for a vampire movie, but it is o.k.

Jordan Davis To begin, Chan-wook Park is easily in my top 3 favorite Directors of all time. Everything he has made is a masterpiece. He treats every single scene of his movies like a painting, each of them a work of art. Thirst is probably his most strange and creative film I have seen by him. He creates a fresh and new story to add to the tale of vampires. Thirst is a much different film compared to Parks more gory films, like his Vengeance Trilogy. This film while still having its gory moments has much more of a comical side to it.The main character is Priest Sang-hyeon. He gets involved in a experiment where he believes he is doing good and is going to heal people by going through this experiment. By the end of it he contracts the EV disease but survives and is transformed into a vampire. Now that he has the blood thirst, and sexual urges he tries and contains himself so he can still be a priest and serve the Lord.http://tgtbtw.blogspot.com/The whole first half of the movie is filled with awkward and very humorous moments. It's a side you don't see too often in Park's films. So for me it was great to see his sense of humor really come out in this movie but at the same time make it a very entertaining vampire movie. But about half through the way movie the story drastically changes and it begins to go back what were used to seeing in Park's films. The movie is basically split into two acts. The first being the goofier and humorous type, where we see the Priest learning what it means to be a vampire. But the second act stays more true to the vampire genre, with lots of eating of humans, and the vampires having more of the higher species mentality.Both acts of the movie are fantastic, and the whole cast is superb. One actress in particular is OK-bin Kim. She is only 22 in this movie, but her character forces her to play many different types of roles. She starts out as a very submissive wife who was forced into her marriage, but we than get to see her grow and overcome her "nightmare" of a life, as she calls it. Each of the characters has a rise and a fall, and the movie is filled with very dramatic and even more intense scenes. I'd have to say the last 20 minutes is my favorite 20 minutes of any Chan- wook Park films, and maybe of all times. The ending is set in gorgeous scenery, and has a very emotional finale. If you are a fan of Chan-wook Park in the slightest, or interested in the myth of vampires, you must see Parks rendition of it.