If you're looking for a fun, sufficiently creepy movie, this is the one to watch! And it's not just any ol' vampire movie - it's about a priest who turns into a vampire after a blood transfusion gone awry (I hope nothing like this happens on my clinical service ha ha ha!), and the havoc that follows as he tries to stay true to his principles.
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Of course, he is able to generally control himself until he meets the woman who screws everything up. Women suck amirite??!!! She's lonely and mistreated as essentially a servant in her own household, so when protag shows up she seduces him. She is successful partly due to her high JVP and because as a priest he is horny af and understandably #downforwhatever. Lots of sexual interactions take place, most of which I found pretty cray, and one of which I found pretty hot?? It's interesting to think about the conflation of thirst for blood (aptly called bloodlust) with sexual desire in the vampire genre. It makes sense because I guess bodily fluids, necks, and gloomy men who tend to be vampires are all sexy in the cultural imagination - but I am also reminded of the conflation of violence and sex in ways that hurt people in catastrophic ways every day.
It's a Park Chan Wook movie, so of course it's filled with cool shots and startling moments and great acting. Of course, the female protag is a - do I even have to say it - literal piece of cute cardboard whose decisions don't make sense but like what's new?? Oh, and fun fact: The Korean title for this movie is bakjwi, literally "bat." I guess it was decided that that wasn't appealing enough for us sex-crazed Americans. Anyway, this film is overall a fun watch if you have a thing for vampires and mild gore like I do!
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