So, as part of my Strange Horizons post (which is still open for anyone who donated, BTW), I got a request for The Hunger.

I hadn’t seen The Hunger in maybe ten years. I wrote down my initial memories of the movie, just to see, and then watched the movie again.

Now, in real life I have the recall of a goldfish. Friends are constantly having to remind me about the year in which things happened, because if it’s not, “God, was that the year I saw Elizabeth, like, thirty times?” then I will have no idea when it was, what happened, or how I felt about it.

The Hunger? Was almost SHOT FOR SHOT what I remembered. So basically, I don’t remember my last year of high school, but I remember this movie. If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.

My pre- and post-movie impressions, and one of the worst trailers ever made (not an exaggeration), under the cut!

“It’s a bruise. It will fade.”
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