Thirst

Despite the fact that Park Chan-Wook becamea familiar name in Europe and America duringthe so-called Asian horror-explosion in theearly 2000's, THIRST represents his first fulllengthforay into the horror genre. The film is ahorrifying and hilarious fanged retelling of ÉmileZola's classic novel Thérèse Raquin.

When a Catholic priest volunteers for adangerous medical experiment in Africa tohelp combat a deadly virus, he is at the pointof death when a blood transfusion from anunknown source revives him. Returning toKorea, the symptoms of the disease linger, buthe is able to stave them off by giving-in to hisnew, insatiable desire to drink human blood.But his newfound bloodlust is only a gateway toa more dangerous form of lust - carnal desirefor his best friend's wife.

Told with Park Chan-Wook's trademark visualinventiveness and strange-but-compelling shiftsof tone, THIRST is a stylish and refreshing takeon the vampire mythos, as well as on a literaryclassic. THIRST was awarded the Jury Prize atthis year's Cannes International Film Festival.

Orig. title
Bakjwi: Cast
Kang-ho Song, Ok-vin Kim, Hae-sook Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, In-hwan Park: Producer
Park Chan Wook, Ahn Soo-Hyun: Script
Chung Seo-Kyung, Park Chan Wook: Cinematography
Chung-hoon Chung: Music
Cho Young-wuk: Spoken language
Korean, English: Subtitle
English