Where to Watch Thirst
- RickJune 7, 2025Not my favorite Chan-wook film I’ve seen, but still well worth watching. Every character is expertly written, and absolutely fucked up and depraved in one way or another - as expected. I felt like this could have been trimmed about 30 minutes and made a much tighter film. The final half hour or so was absolute perfection though. I almost started feeling bad for the mom by the end. Her situation is my worst nightmare.
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Thirst was released on April 30, 2009.
Thirst was directed by Park Chan-wook.
Thirst has a runtime of 2h 14m.
Thirst was produced by Park Chan-wook, Katharine Kim, Kim Hak-beom, Nam Ki-moon, Bob Seh, Joon H. Choi, Ahn Soo-hyun.
Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery by an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He realizes his sole reason for living: the pleasures of the flesh.
The key characters in Thirst are Priest Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho), Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), Lady Ra (Kim Hae-sook).
Thirst is rated R.
Thirst is a Horror, Thriller, Drama film.
Thirst has an audience rating of 7.4 out of 10.
Thirst had a budget of $5M.
Thirst has made $13.1M at the box office.