Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a piece of pop culture coming out that week. This week: Twilight: Breaking Dawn—Part 2 has us thinking of vampire alternatives.
The Hunger (1983) Cinematic vampires did the glam thing long before Twilight’s Edward Cullen came along with his diamond-sparkly skin and tousled hair. In The Hunger, Catherine Deneuve is a vampire and David Bowie is her blood-sucking, century-old consort, and they live a happy predatory life together in a glitzy ’80s paradise of Bauhaus concerts, blown-out hairspray helmets, and hard-edged Robert Palmer aesthetics. Then Bowie starts to age rapidly, and Deneuve admits that his connection to her could only keep him young and beautiful so long. As he panics and looks for a solution, she discards him and replaces him with new lover Susan Sarandon. As Sarandon says in The Hunger’s commentary track, this was back when ...
Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment