The Hunger
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon Director: Tony Scott Brand: Warner Brothers Producer: Richard Shepherd Writer: Ivan Davis Writer: Michael Thomas DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: Spanish (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.40:1 Running Time: 96 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-10-05 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video |
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Movie Reviews of The Hunger
Movie Review: Sometimes art film = not well done film. See: The Hunger
Summary: 2 Stars
I picked up this film due to my enjoyment of several Whitley Strieber books as well as the movie "Wolfen", also based on a Strieber book that was very good. I would have thought David Bowie and Susan Sarandon's talents would make for a good film. Their talents were good, but the film itself prevented them from making it good.
To give a brief description, this movie is essentially a mash up of horror film and art film. It focuses on David Bowie's character John, and his wife, Miriam. To be blunt, they're vampires, although they don't seem to be the typical version with fangs. Instead, they kill with knives, and it's assumed they drink blood, but it's hard to tell because they are never shown feeding on their victims, the movie just shifts to some weird flashback or flash of someone's face that doesn't really seem to connect well to the movie.
The weird flashbacks or scenes that don't seem to connect to the rest of the movie are one of the most aggravating parts of the movie, and they start doing it at the very beginning at a nightclub. They show the performer, a bizarre looking pre-goth (I know, it's an 80s movie, but even for the 80s, the dude was weird) with a tendency to pull his jacket over his head. They keep showing him instead of keeping focus on Miriam and John, and even after the two leave the club, they keep showing the guy to the point it becomes distracting. This by far is the most serious problem the whole movie has, because these random scenes or even lovely moments of curtains flowing through the air oftentimes add no value to the movie and actually detract from the main story.
The acting is pretty good; Bowie is especially good as the fiendish John, and even makes the character often sympathetic when he begins rapidly aging, which is to his credit because John's a murdering monster. The problem is, in the directors' eagerness to be "artsy", the weird scenes keep interfering with the impact of the important scenes, especially the end which doesn't make any sense because of how it is filmed, making for a messy movie and one to be rented if you absolutely must see it, not keep it.