The Hunger

The film's enduring quality is its ineffable coolness, which feels inextricable from Scott's supposedly lowbrow music video origins.

More style than substance, and perhaps simply an excuse to get Denueve and Susan Sarandon, Miriam's post-Bowie love, in bed together.

In his feature debut, director Tony Scott, brother of Ridley, exhibits the same penchant for eleborate art direction, minimal, humorless dialog and shooting in smoky rooms.

…Tony Scott's oddball vampire movie The Hunger has visual poetry even if the narrative is improbable to say the least...this is style over substance, but such grand style as this is a rare occurrence even in early 80s cinema…