Kate
(Chantal Contouri) is kidnapped by a team of vampire scientists who claim she's
a descendant of Countess Elizabeth Bathory. She doesn't believe them, and tries to escape,
but the scientists hold her prisoner.
Since Kate refuses to drink blood, they put her through elaborate mental
torture in order to shock her system in the hopes of making her remember her
vampire past.
Thirst gains points for an inventive mythology, but the unorthodox approach
yields minimal results. There are some good
ideas here, yet it’s all put together with little finesse. While the film adds interesting wrinkles to the
usually accepted vampire lore, director Rod (Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD) Hardy’s delivery is much too
stiff for any of this to be fun, let alone scary.
I
did like the scenes on the “Blood Farm” where innocent people in white pajamas
mill around and are used as walking blood banks. These sequences felt like they came out of Parts:
The Clonus Horror. There’s also a dairy that packages blood in
milk cartons. Another nice touch
revolves around how vampires shower. The
red faucet doesn’t stand for hot water; it stands for blood. There were certainly enough of these little
flourishes here to warrant a good movie.
It’s just a shame that Hardy’s pacing is much too slow, and the stuff with the scientists is
so predictable.
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