Grimmfest 2023 has added two classic films to their preview night on Thursday 5 October: THE HUNGER (1983) and CAT PEOPLE (1982)!
In THE HUNGER, Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life, but John, her companion for centuries, suddenly discovers that he is getting old minute by minute, so he looks for Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging, and asks her for help.
Tony Scott’s masterwork of bisexual vampirism in New York stars David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon as the ill-fated eternal love triangle this is a rarely shown classic.
In CAT PEOPLE, after years of separation, Irena and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat — and the zoo curator is drawn to her. Soon, Irena’s brother will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they turn into predatory jungle cats.
Rounding off our retrospective double bill is the archetypally 80s and highly erotic remake of Jacques Touneur’s masterpiece that displays, in Schrader’s words, “more skin than blood”.
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