With Park Chan-wook’s noir-tinged thriller Decision to Leave hitting UK cinemas this weekend, we champion his brilliantly twisted vampire-romance THIRST for this week’s Friday Night Film.
Not initially recognised with the same distinguished acclaim as Park’s much-loved Vengeance trilogy from the same decade, Thirst is a more poetic and melancholic experience while still featuring all the creative visual flair, grotesque violence and wicked humour we’ve come to expect from Park’s oeuvre.
This blood-soaked tragedy is both an erotic and morbid tale that centers on the repressed sexual desires of priest-turned-vampire Sang Hyun (Song Kang-ho) and his insatiable love for Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin) that ultimately descends into a rampage of bloodlust and depravity.
Friday Night Film - THIRST
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This week’s Friday Night Film pick is quite possibly the greatest contemporary horror film you’ve never seen and is a part of the BFI’s In Dreams are Monsters, a UK-wide season of horror films that focuses on the creatures that have haunted our screens and dreams for over a century.
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A Korean immigrant falsely accused of murder in 70s San Francisco is the subject of Julia Ha & Eugene Yi’s heart-breaking true crime documentary FREE CHOL SOO LEE.