Like so many other films from British commercials directors, The Hunger [from the novel by Whitley Strieber] is all visual and aural flash, although this modern vampire story looks so great, as do its three principal performers, and is so bizarre that it possesses a certain perverse appeal.

The film is all all neo-gothic smoke and mirrors.

R • 1 hour 37 min • 1983

"The Hunger" is an agonizingly bad vampire movie, circling around an exquisitely effective sex scene. Sorry, but that's the way it is, and your reporter has

Deneuve is the ageless, possibly final survivor of an ancient immortal race dependent on humans for both sustenance and companionship. Her superior blood allows

Read the Empire Movie review of The Hunger. All style and no anything else, especially plot coherence....

In Tony Scottâ?Ts The Hunger, a young girl snaps a Polaroid of David Bowieâ?Ts A-character John, and hands him the photograph. His chin is tilted up, eyebrows A-knitting together in a frown. Heâ?Ts biting his bottom lip, baring his teeth like a vampire, and in fact in this film he is one, transformed by his undead lover Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) some centuries ago. The Bowie in the