Thirst - "let us prey"

Vampire priests...? As someone who grew up avoiding the clammy hands and bulging pants of a whole army of boy-hungry christian brother paedophiles in 80s Dublin the idea of a priest that only wanted to suck my neck would seem to be fairly tame stuff in comparison. Guilt-ridden korean catholic bloodsuckers? Bah, make a movie about my old principal, Brother Kelly, that'd really s**t people up! But like a priest I believe in buggery charity and charitably...this movie...it's a mixed bag....like what you'd get if a chimp did your weekly shop in tesco (probably lots of mouldering fruit, and sweets. So you'd end up with a tooth decay-maddened ape with leaking bowels. And that's why I sleep with a mirror and a baseball bat under my bed...the mirror to temporarily confuse the mardy primate, the bat to beat it into submission) So, Thirst. Pious priest goes off to africa to volunteer for some weird medical experiment where he gets transfected by vamp blood. So he comes home, and in-between endless bouts of mahjong, starts to turn into a hedonistic bloodsucking guilt-ridden ballbag. Who seems to spend as much time getting his end away as actually procuring blood for his infernal plasma-lust.

There is some very squishy and wince-inducing blood-letting here but by hell it's long. Weird. And frequently very dull indeed. Director Park Chan-wook is highly overrated in my opinion...liked Oldboy, bored by JSA, thought the "Sympathy" movies were just odd and if you haven't seen "I'm an android but that's ok" you have by default lived a better life than me. But if its this or some teeny emo vampire bollix then for f**ks sake watch this. It's an easy movie to admire for its style and sheer balls but very, very hard to like.