In turn beautiful and repugnant, saintly and devilish, Thirst is a feast, a ball, an extravaganza of bodies, blood, and life; but it takes its time in getting to it, in the way that we take our time in getting sick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2024

He just wants to save people but he emerges as a bloodsucker... a man torn between morality and instinct, faith and desires of the flesh (and blood).

| Oct 27, 2023

Over time, Thirst will no doubt be considered one of the best vampire films ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 30, 2023

Sexy, bloody, and the perfect blend of Director Park’s eye for the violent and the romantic, Thirst is and will forever be my favorite vampire movie to watch.

| Apr 6, 2023

Heartbreaking, funny, sexy, disturbing, and even sweet at times, Thirst manages to be an intriguing rumination on vampires that stays afloat amid an ocean of its predecessors.

| Oct 29, 2022

Heartbreaking, funny, sexy, disturbing, and even sweet at times, Thirst manages to be an intriguing rumination on vampires that stays afloat amid an ocean of its predecessors.

| Oct 28, 2022

Its overhaul of vampire terror with certain erotic registers leaves me as cold as a corpse, in a state of perpetual apathy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 18, 2021

For a movie so relentlessly bleak, Thirst is also one of the most erotically charged movies in the vampire genre.

| Aug 19, 2020

The few funny or visceral scenes cannot hide the fact that in the year that the vampire flick has been reinvigorated... this is a major disappointment.

| Nov 1, 2018

Thirst truly enters the dreamy, disturbing world of psychological horror. Park manages to sidestep a lot of the cliches of this subgenre by injecting seemingly inappropriate bits of humor.

| May 23, 2018

The broad humour ends up undercutting the potential poignancy of the ending... Never mind, because it's not every day you see two vampires locked in such a colourful apache dance of destruction, filmed with such aplomb.

| Nov 27, 2017

Leave it to the South Koreans to inject new blood into the seemingly eternal vampire oeuvre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2017

My affection for Thirst has mostly to do with the performance of Kim Ok-vin as Tae-ju, a sullen household slave who's transformed into a ravenous, punishing bloodsucker.

| Jun 1, 2015

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Kiddie shows like Twilight and Blood: The Last Vampire pale (you'll excuse the expression) in comparison.

| Aug 29, 2011

Boldly erotic and playfully ponderous about sins of the flesh, "Thirst" rips open its bodice, and various veins, with arterial sprays of carnage and carnality. It's a savage, frank, fanged fusion of "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice."

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 31, 2010

Perhaps no auteur is as suited to the vampire genre as South Korean director Park Chan-wook, a man who has made a career out of films full of sexual perversity, doomed romances and a seemingly insurmountable volume of blood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2010

The degrees of shock, the foreshadowing and throwbacks throughout (both visual and in dialogue) all seem diminutive next to the amazing performances by the male and female lead.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2010

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 26, 2010