Recommended by Daniel Rodriguez.

Part of the "March Movie Madness" challenge.

What an amazing idea! I simply just love these new takes on vampires. Great acting, with so many different emotions in play. I like that every character in the film seem to love and hate each other all at the same time. It gives off this very disturbed, unsafe environment they all walk around in. The only thing wrong with the film, is that it's way too long. The first part drags out almost to a point where it becomes painful. But then came the second act, where it managed redeemed itself, and catch me again. I'm not sure if it came a little too late to really get me a 100% involved again, but I appreciate the effort.

A delightfully fucked-up movie. As per usual with Korean cinema, the production values are exceedingly high. Fabulous camerawork, cinematography, editing, music, etc. Hollywood, take note.

Great movie all-around, but the finale, in particular, is awesome.

Like it's subjects, the vampire sub-genre of horror is one that just refuses to die, and has seemingly lived well past it's sell-by date, churning out films, tv shows and books that for the most part retread the same old material while adding little new to it. Every once and a while though, someone comes along and does do something interesting and reminds you just why vampires are so enduring.

Park Chan-Wook's take on them isn't entirely original in it's broad storytelling strokes, but it's done so well, with such style and passion, that it hardly matters. Definitely not for the squeamish or faint-hearted with scenes of Song Kang-ho puking up blood while playing a flute and such, it's still an brilliant film, and one of the best takes on the genre in recent years.

This is such a refreshing take on a vampire story. I guess it should come as no surprise that combining the vampire concept with Korean horror conventions would work so perfectly. It deals with questions of morality, faith, and death, but never gets bogged down by it. The two leads play perfectly off of each other, leading to a wonderful finale that ends with a final shot that may be one of my favorites of all time. I'm struggling with words here, because I just liked every damned thing about this film.

One of the better modern vampire films.

How the hell did this movie slip under my radar for so long? It has to be the most interesting spin on the vampire genre that i have seen in ages.

Crazy shit, man!

Great vampire and romance film. It has the usual Park trademarks, fantastic imagery, great music, and plenty of gore. Still, the film runs a bit too long for its own good.

Thirst has some fantastic acting, especially from Kim Ok-bin. Song Kang-ho is alright here, delivering a much more relaxed performance than what I've seen in The Host and The Good, The Bad, The Weird, and it kinda fits him well too! The movie constantly switches from beautiful (that ending shot was amazing), to tense, to downright terrifying (that one scene in the bedroom, I think you will know which one if you've seen it). Pretty good for a vampire movie, did a lot of things in different (and mostly better) ways than other movies of its kind.

What is sin
To a man
Who's no longer mortal?

I have seen a bunch of Korean movies and almost every single one of them contains crazy amounts of blood and gore. I had to get it out before saying that this is the craziest Korean movie I have seen so far to give you the idea of how crazy it really is. Chan-Wook Park's vampire drama is probably second only in craziness and the amount of blood and violence we see on screen to another one of Park's own movies - Oldboy(2003). Ok-bin Kim's Tae-Ju, however could easily be my favourite performance in Korean film.

Aceptable aplicación de la fórmula Chan-Wook (sangre, humor negro, extraño romanticismo, fogozanos de brutal poesía) al mito eterno de los vampiros, que recuperan aquí la pasión y locura perdida en otras aproximaciones recientes. Irregular, quizá no aporte demasiado a su filmografía, pero el director coreano sabe recompensar a sus espectadores con indudables golpes de genio.