Revel in a true miracle of casting, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon as queer vampires in 1980s New York City, in a film that is stunningly abrasive and sublime. 

The film opens in a smoky underground club where “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” inspires prowling and savage dancing. Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) is a vampire who enjoys many loves—some women, some men—over the millennia, and after centuries her current love John (David Bowie) begins deteriorating through a rapid aging process. He looks to Sarah (Susan Sarandon) for help, as she’s a doctor researching a cure for progeria. When Sarah meets Miriam, they are infatuated. The film’s eerie imagery, glowing curtains, walls of marble, and shafts of light, feed this bittersweet meditation on love and death. 

The Hunger is the directorial debut of the late Tony Scott, whose second film is the famously homoerotic Top Gun (1986). He is the younger brother of Sir Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner).