The Hunger (1983) 💉🩸🦇🎃

"You wouldn’t have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve, I don’t care what your sexual history to that point had been."

—Susan Sarandon on her love scene with Catherine Deneuve

Hard to argue with Sarandon on this point, and Deneuve’s performance is subtly mesmerizing and haunting. The film is sleek, smart, and sexy. It’s a reinvention of the vampire myth with the gritty razor’s edge aesthetics of the early 80s.

Whitley Strieber’s novel is an intoxicating and compelling read, and Tony Scott’s debut as a major motion picture director could not have gone much better.

Sam and I strongly recommend that you, dear listeners, indulge yourselves in both. We can’t think of a better way to celebrate this special time of year.

Be sure to scroll through our catalog of episodes. Plenty of spooky and creepy fare to keep you in the mood for the season of witches and waning sunlight.