Dir: Tony Scott. | Dir: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young | Horror 97’
Although this glossy adaptation of Whitley Streiber’s novel was originally greeted with raspberries posterity has been kind to ‘The Hunger’, and today it continues to enjoy cult status on the strength of its sapphic chic and the star power of its three leading players.
Catherine Deneuve is a worthy successor to Delphine Seyrig in ‘Daughters of Darkness’, as a glacial blonde lipstick lesbian in chic shades who employs Delibes to seduce Susan Sarandon who describes her as “different, she’s…European”; while the scene where David Bowie’s (age inconveniently catches up with him) swiftly became a classic. @RichardChatten.