Thirst

Thirst is somewhere in between vampire film mythology and classical love story. A priest volunteers for an experiment that aims to develop a vaccine against a deadly virus, but the treatment turns him into a vampire. While he tries to fight the urge to find fresh blood, he meets the wife of a childhood friend, and the two of them engage in a love affair. Thirst was released at the same time as the Twilight series made vampires fashionable again, but we dare say that film is a hotter, bloodier, more transgressive, and more visually endearing film experience than watching Pattinson and Stewart.

Park Chan-wook (b. 1963) from South Korea is one of the world's foremost contemporary filmmakers. He has directed a number of visually spectacular and immersive films, and got his international breakthrough with JSA: Joint Security Area (2000) and Oldboy (for which he won the Grand Jury Price in Cannes in 2003). Thematically, many of his characters are motivated by revenge.