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Thirst

2009 · Movie · 133 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer80%as of 2021-10-06
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.8/10as of 2021-10-06
  • Metacritic73/100as of 2024-05-01

What it is

Thirst is a 2009 horror film written, produced and directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on the 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, the film stars Song Kang-ho as Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest who turns into a vampire as a result of a failed medical experiment, and falls in love with Tae-ju, the wife of his childhood friend.

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Genres
Horror / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Original language
English

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