Review of The Hunger (1983) by Ashley D — 01 Mar 2017

I think this is what amateur "critics" always say, so I'm going to say it... people who don't like this movie don't understand it. You also cannot judge it fairly out of the context of time in which it was made; it is unfair to compare the movie of then to a movie of now other than at the core - plot, acting, etc.

In those terms, it's a good movie - nothing revelatory about the plot, but it does succeed in creating interesting characters that you care about. It's very sad to see the Bowie character realize that what he thought was an eternal life and love is going to come to a rapid end.

It's not only chic and gothic but very inline with it's period - I'm still a huge Bauhaus fan, and I think the use of the intro song with the visuals was a great idea well executed to grab the audience and set the tone of the movie.

I still like watching this movie, and not because it's a cult classic - there are many cult classics that are truly so bad they are not worth watching again or more than once now - we can romanticize them better by not reliving those.

The Hunger is one I will continue to watch and does not show up on movie channels or cable nearly often enough (I have not found it on my cable in decades).