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THIRST – Horror Film Interview with Park Chan-wook
Livin' It Up, Dead-Style: Song Kang-ho feasts in THIRST
Turns out in Park Chan-wook’s universe, revenge may be sweet, but blood is just plain tasty. In THIRST, a priest’s benevolent attempt to aid medical researchers turns around to bite him in the… well, let’s say neck, when a blood transfusion transforms him into a profoundly conflicted [...]
Thirst opens July 31 – Watch the Trailer
[ July 31, 2009; ] THIRST - the bloody vampire-drama-tragedy from Korean writer-director Park Chan-wook – has been scheduled for a July 31 release in the U.S., courtesy of Universal Studios’s boutique label, Focus Features. Fans of Park’s earlier work (OLD BOY, SYMPATHEY FOR MR. VENGEANCE, LADY VENGEANCE, THREE EXTREMES) will see much that is familiar, but this time the meticulous cinematic [...]
Foreign horror heads to Hollywood from Cannes
Variety reports that IFC Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights for ANTICHRIST, Lars Von Triers’ symbolic shocker, which recently screened at Cannes. From advance descriptions, the film sounds as if it will easily fall into NC-17 territory, so we can only hope that IFC puts it out uncut (and probably unrated, as they most [...]
HR decribes Cannes’ blood-soaked red carpet
Hollywood Reporter film critic Kirk Honeycutt thinks the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival is running red with blood, thanks to a series of violent flicks unspooling in competition, including Park Chan-wook’s vampire film THIRST and Lars Von Trier’s art house horror film ANTICHRIST.
In such cases as a razor-blade murder in Jacques Audiard’s finely [...]
