| The Thirst |
The Thirst is about a struggling couple who both have a drug addiction, Maxx (Matt
Keeslar) who is trying to kick his habit by attending rehab meeting each week, while
the love of his life Lisa (Clare Kramer) a stripper who is dealing with not only a
addiction but also suffering with cancer, which Lisa doesn't want Maxx to know about,
due to the fact she doesn't want Maxx to see her slowly die, so she decides to take the
fast way out and commits suicide by slashing her wrists one late night. Maxx ends up
finding her in the bath tub. Maxxs’ life slowly beings to crumble around him, and he
doesn't seem to do anything or associate with any of his friends, due to Lisa's death.
Until one night he is dragged out of his apartment and out to a Gothic nightclub called
Club Inferno, where he begins to have so called visions of his deceased girlfriend
dancing in the V.I.P section of the smoky club. Amazed and shocked that his true love
is alive, moments later the nightclub becomes a feeding ground for a clan of blood
thirsty vampires, who brutally go on a killing spree and massacre the whole nightclub in
a bloodbath. Lisa quickly sneaks Maxx out the back door before the other vampires
and the head vampire Darius (Jeremy Sisto) realize what she has done, it’s just a
matter of time till it becomes dawn and Maxx begins to tail the blood suckers back to
their hideout and tries to rescue Lisa or die trying.
This is the first film I have seen from filmmaker Jeremy Kasten, and it’s hard to say
whether I like this film or not. The plot has so many flaws throughout the whole entire
film, as so does the whole concept of the film. The vampires don't have fangs, they walk
around like they just took a huge shit in their pants and most of all after they slaughter a
shitload of people in the nightclub, they all walk out not covered in blood with all their
clothes in mint condition after having a feast. Now these vampires don't just nibble on a
neck or two, they literately rip out the throats of their victims and shower in the blood. I
just didn't really get it, apart from all the blood splatter and a few gory scenes, which
was a treat to watch. But the rest of the film was rather boring and silly to watch to tell
you the truth.
The cast all did a good job with their characters, and you do get to see a few familiar
faces from time to time. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to save the film, due to a poorly
written script which didn't really grab my attention. Too tell you the truth I ain't too much
of a vampire fan with horror films, some are bearable and some are rather boring and
childish.
The special effects I have to say were sometimes rather dull and fake looking, as far as
the beginning of the film the first bit of blood you see (Lisa's death in the bathtub) well
her blood was an orange color. In fact the blood effects looked like they used a few
cans of pumpkin soup or tomato soup. But later on in the film the film kinda slowly
picked up with the effects, I guess Jeremy got some more funding and dipped into his
pockets to get better special effects.
One thing I do give this film for is the visual effects, when you see a vampire go up in
flames due to the sun shining on their skin, it was amazing effects to view.
I don't really recommend you buy this DVD right away. If you are a hardcore vampire
fan, well I suggest you might want to rent this puppy before you dip into your own
pockets. So yeah other than that, I personally found The Thirst rather plain, dull, boring
to watch at times, but once the blood, guts and nudity came into play the film definitely
grabbed my attention from time to time.
DVD Features:
* Audio Commentary with Director Jeremy Kasten
* Deleted Scenes, Also on DVD, Full Motion Menues, DVD-ROM Script
* Favorite Vampire Movies Featurette
* Photo Gallery (includes production sketches)
* The Thirst Making of Documentary
Directed by: Jeremy Kasten
Written by: Ben Lustig, Liz Maccie, Wayne Mahon
Starring: Matt Keeslar, Clare Kramer, Jeremy Sisto, Serena Scott Thomas, Neil
Jackson, Adam Baldwin, Erik Palladino, Dawn Weld, Ellie Cornell, Blaine Pate, Tom
Lenk, Otep Batz, Nick Principe, Martin Beck, Jerry Hoffman
Special Effect Artist: Autonomous F/X Inc.
Visual Effect Artists: Brent M. Bowen, Tim Carras, Harry Eisenstein, Peter Gend
(2006)
Keeslar) who is trying to kick his habit by attending rehab meeting each week, while
the love of his life Lisa (Clare Kramer) a stripper who is dealing with not only a
addiction but also suffering with cancer, which Lisa doesn't want Maxx to know about,
due to the fact she doesn't want Maxx to see her slowly die, so she decides to take the
fast way out and commits suicide by slashing her wrists one late night. Maxx ends up
finding her in the bath tub. Maxxs’ life slowly beings to crumble around him, and he
doesn't seem to do anything or associate with any of his friends, due to Lisa's death.
Until one night he is dragged out of his apartment and out to a Gothic nightclub called
Club Inferno, where he begins to have so called visions of his deceased girlfriend
dancing in the V.I.P section of the smoky club. Amazed and shocked that his true love
is alive, moments later the nightclub becomes a feeding ground for a clan of blood
thirsty vampires, who brutally go on a killing spree and massacre the whole nightclub in
a bloodbath. Lisa quickly sneaks Maxx out the back door before the other vampires
and the head vampire Darius (Jeremy Sisto) realize what she has done, it’s just a
matter of time till it becomes dawn and Maxx begins to tail the blood suckers back to
their hideout and tries to rescue Lisa or die trying.
This is the first film I have seen from filmmaker Jeremy Kasten, and it’s hard to say
whether I like this film or not. The plot has so many flaws throughout the whole entire
film, as so does the whole concept of the film. The vampires don't have fangs, they walk
around like they just took a huge shit in their pants and most of all after they slaughter a
shitload of people in the nightclub, they all walk out not covered in blood with all their
clothes in mint condition after having a feast. Now these vampires don't just nibble on a
neck or two, they literately rip out the throats of their victims and shower in the blood. I
just didn't really get it, apart from all the blood splatter and a few gory scenes, which
was a treat to watch. But the rest of the film was rather boring and silly to watch to tell
you the truth.
The cast all did a good job with their characters, and you do get to see a few familiar
faces from time to time. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to save the film, due to a poorly
written script which didn't really grab my attention. Too tell you the truth I ain't too much
of a vampire fan with horror films, some are bearable and some are rather boring and
childish.
The special effects I have to say were sometimes rather dull and fake looking, as far as
the beginning of the film the first bit of blood you see (Lisa's death in the bathtub) well
her blood was an orange color. In fact the blood effects looked like they used a few
cans of pumpkin soup or tomato soup. But later on in the film the film kinda slowly
picked up with the effects, I guess Jeremy got some more funding and dipped into his
pockets to get better special effects.
One thing I do give this film for is the visual effects, when you see a vampire go up in
flames due to the sun shining on their skin, it was amazing effects to view.
I don't really recommend you buy this DVD right away. If you are a hardcore vampire
fan, well I suggest you might want to rent this puppy before you dip into your own
pockets. So yeah other than that, I personally found The Thirst rather plain, dull, boring
to watch at times, but once the blood, guts and nudity came into play the film definitely
grabbed my attention from time to time.
DVD Features:
* Audio Commentary with Director Jeremy Kasten
* Deleted Scenes, Also on DVD, Full Motion Menues, DVD-ROM Script
* Favorite Vampire Movies Featurette
* Photo Gallery (includes production sketches)
* The Thirst Making of Documentary
Directed by: Jeremy Kasten
Written by: Ben Lustig, Liz Maccie, Wayne Mahon
Starring: Matt Keeslar, Clare Kramer, Jeremy Sisto, Serena Scott Thomas, Neil
Jackson, Adam Baldwin, Erik Palladino, Dawn Weld, Ellie Cornell, Blaine Pate, Tom
Lenk, Otep Batz, Nick Principe, Martin Beck, Jerry Hoffman
Special Effect Artist: Autonomous F/X Inc.
Visual Effect Artists: Brent M. Bowen, Tim Carras, Harry Eisenstein, Peter Gend
(2006)
| MOVIE SCREENSHOTS |
| Requiem for a Dream meets Near Dark. |
| Reviewed by: zer0hal0 |
