Thirst (1979)
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
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Fantastic!
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them. This Movie Is Nearly As Bad As 'Twilight'. No I Don't Think That Quite Covers It. I Am A HUGE Fan Of Vampire Movies So I Know What I'm Talking About When I Say "This Film Sucks" Now Let Me Go Down The Flaws. The Vampire That Suddenly Decided To Cut Back On Blood For Good (WHOAH!!!!!! Vampires Have No Soul So Why Cut Back) Gets Hit By Sunlight Numerous Times & It Has No Effect At All On Her. There Is A Granny Vampire (I Am Not Lying). The Acting Is Horrendously Awful. I Am Ashamed To Be Australian. I Mean Sure My Country Gets It Right Sometimes (Hercules Returns, The Crow, Dark City(Made By An Australian Filmmaker), Crocidile Dundee) But All The Others Is Crap After Crap. I Gave Up On 'Charlie & Boots', 'Muriels Wedding' Is A Shitstorm Filled With Overacting Pricks, e.t.c. I Am So Humiliated To Call Myself Australian. This Resembles Twilight As Being Untruthful To The Vampire Myths. I Have To Congratulate Rod Hardy For Pointing The Camera In The Right Direction. I Know It Was His First Movie But That Is Also No Excuse To Make This Sh!t. Also Their "Blood Farm" Sells Blood In Milk Cartons. THEY SELL BLOOD IN MILK CARTONS. Are You Kidding Me. When They Drink Blood The Music Is Heavenly. I'm Not A Specialist In Biology But Blood Helps You Live So To Take It All Out Is A Bad Thing. Correct Me If I'm Wrong. Thought I Wasn't Wrong. If This Guy Directed An Episode Of Joss Whedon's 'Dollhouse' Then I Might Have Second Thoughts About Seeing It.
Generally the movie is slow, but memorable.I remember watching this when I was a teenager. It was shown on Channel 50's "Creature Feature" sometime in the mid-80's. The plot is as mentioned in the other comments here, but I remember most the vampire Candid Camera moment when the main actress is undergoing forced "vampirization" therapy which consists of a the fake vampire cult sneaking human blood into everything. Initially shocking, when carried to multiple instances it all becomes hilarious.The scenes that stick in my mind.The lady goes to the fridge, opens up a milk carton, drinks from it and (SURPRISE!) you see blood streaming down from the edges of her mouth. She reacts as if nearly vomiting and the shock diminishes as these instances are repeated like a series of bloody pranks.It seems like she cannot eat or drink anything without it having blood previously injected into it.She goes on a picnic with her cute mustached boyfriend, bites into a deep fried chicken leg and golly gee, it also is squirting out blood like some weird prank.The one uplifting star of wannabe "Vampire Candid Camera" is that there is a fellow that I mistook for Patrick Macnee (one of the stars of the 1966 British TV series "The Avengers"), but he only plays a minor role.
This murky oddity is great fun and well made on eerie locations in Victoria Australia at a real scary place that actually exists called MontSalvat 'castle' by 70s drive in auteur Antony Ginnane. He also made a very strong Carrie like thriller called Patrick. Other Aussie thrillers of the time include Summerfield and The Chain Reaction.THIRST should be a cult film but lacks the 35mm availability for cinemas to make it exactly that. Like Rocky Horror, Legend Of Hell House or Phantom Of The Paradise, all part of a mad parochial horror cycle of the 70s. Find it and have a great time. You will love the, er, milking scenes.........Antony..your films are languishing! get em out there again!
Terrible, badly-made modern-day vampire tale. Chantal Contouri plays a businesswoman kidnapped by a league of vampires who run a remote farm where mindless humans are routinely 'harvested' for their blood, which is then neatly packaged in milk cartons.The thinnest of thin plots is padded-out to feature length with endless chase scenes and incomprehensible dream sequences. In fact the entire plot is fully revealed within the first half hour, after which the film has nowhere new to go, so it constantly rehashes the same scenes of blood harvesting, the brainwashing of and hallucinations experienced by the film's heroine, and the spectacle of the sect's grisly ceremonies. The haste in revealing the entire plot so early implies that there will be a major plot twist in the film. None is forthcoming.Best part of the film is the wonderfully high-camp performance by Shirley Cameron as a sinister sect insider. Henry Silva and David Hemmings were clearly imported to help assure the film's boxoffice success but their presence does little to help the film itself. Meanwhile when Contouri enacts terror or anger it comes off looking much like the intense irritation she would experience on finding a parking ticket on her Mercedes sports car.