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Thirst

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Things take a turn for the Goth in Oldboy director Park Chan-wook’s latest, as a friendly priest (Song Kang-ho, last seen on Western shores in The Host) volunteers for a vaccine-testing programme (never a good idea) and finds him transformed into a vampire. This being a Korean movie, the bloodsuckers are about as far as you can get from Dracula or Buffy. Instead, our hero finds himself with an enormous sexual appetite and a plague of boils that only fresh blood can keep at bay.

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