Trailer!: Thirst

POSTED: Friday, June 19, 2009, 11:00 PM

Filed Under: Movies trailer!

(This is a red band trailer but it's not that scandalous)

Ok, so vampire overload, right? Enough with the little suckers, let's get on it with it. Ah, not so fast. Badass to the max Korean director Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, Sympathy of Lady Vengeance both of which are awesome) throws his hat into the ring with Thirst. One of the reasons vampires are so prevalent with in pop culture is that they are easy to ascribe symbolism too. The immortality, the Otherness, the penetration ' it's all easy to tweek the idea of a vamp so it comes out the way you want it to. And while I've seen vampire as homosexual (True Blood, pretty much anything Ann Rice has ever touched), vampire as dashing hero (Twilight) and vampire as the catalyst for teen drama (Buffy), I don't think I've ever seen a vampire as Jesus scenario. This guy sacrifices himself, doesn't want to see people die, is a savior in a a really twisted way. Ok, my sense of symbolism may be off because I'm looking at a couple minutes long trailer, rather than a full length movie but damn!

Thirst is scheduled for a July 31 limited release. No word yet on a Philly date.

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