The Hunger (1983) on Netflix
R19831h 37mFantasyHorrorRomance
Miriam Blaylock, a vampire, promises eternal life to the humans she chooses as lovers. Her companion John, a cellist, ages years within days and seeks out Dr. Sarah Roberts, who studies aging.
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Plot summary
Miriam Blaylock is a vampire who promises eternal life to the humans she chooses as her lovers. John, a cellist she met in eighteenth-century France, has been her companion for two hundred years. John cannot sleep and ages years in a matter of days. He seeks help from Dr. Sarah Roberts, a gerontology researcher who studies rapid aging in primates with her colleagues Charlie and Tom. Sarah doubts his claims and turns him away.
Cast
- Rufus Collinsas Charlie Humphries
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hunger (1983)
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The final scene of Sarah on the balcony was added at the studio's behest to leave the film open-ended and allow for possible sequels. Susan Sarandon later regretted it, saying the powers that be rewrote the ending so she would not die, ignoring the rules the film had spent its length delineating.- Silent film star Bessie Love makes her final film appearance in The Hunger, playing an elderly fan at Sarah's book signing.
- The Hunger inspired a short-lived TV series of the same name, though with no plot or character connection, and was cited by publisher Fred Berger as an influence on his goth magazine Propaganda and by showrunner Bryan Fuller on his series Hannibal.
- Howard Blake had Ralph Holmes and Raphael Wallfisch record Bach pieces for The Hunger, with David Bowie miming to Wallfisch's Solo Cello Sonata, and recorded a Delibes soprano duet with Elaine Barry and Judith Rees.
- Howard Blake introduced Tony Scott to Hans Zimmer, then working at The Snake Ranch Studio in Fulham, but Scott eventually used a score by Michel Rubini and Denny Jaeger, with electronics by David Lawson.
