This film is really awful.The acting is bad, ... the writing is bad, ... the directing is bad, ... even the cutting/editing is bad. And it does take a lot for a film to be so dismally bad that even as a layman you can literally witness each and every one of the bad editing decisions.I like vampire films; and I do know that there are some films that can be good even though they are bad.But this film here has absolutely no redeeming features.It isn't trashy cult, ... it isn't unintentionally funny, ... nothing of the sort.--> It is just plain bad.

I loved it! It was so much fun to see so many of my frequent TV faves on the "big screen". Back in the days before "The Middleman", "Firefly", "Six Feet Under" and "Buffy". Not to forget Erik Palladino from a little bit everywhere. Everyone is going through a Change of Life. 12 Stepping with Dracula and trying not to enable each other! An eye-opening view of hypocrisy in the young among the ages. This movie brings blood soaked gore into the modern psycho-babble world, where we have killed "the child within" in order to heal it. A lot of Vampiric fun with moderate to juicy blood flow and a neat moral in the end. Like something Tarantino might have ...cut his teeth on?;-}

Director Jeremy Kasten makes a ''pause'' on his normal work as documentaries' editor to bring us The Thirst,his third film,which is a very fun vampire film which has interesting ideas,good performances and a lot of blood.The publicity for this film says ''a mixture between Requiem for a Dream and Near Dark''.The Thirst is not as good as that brilliant films but it has the same themes that films have(addiction and contemporary vampires,respectively).The themes of vampires and addiction appeared on a lot of films(like in The Addiction,directed by the great Abel Ferrara).But The Thirst adds some innovative and ingenious things to the story.The performances are very good from Matt Keeslar to Adam Baldwin without forgetting Jeremy Sisto.Also,the film is pretty gory and I always appreciate that on a horror film.The Thirst is a pretty fun movie which does not only shows blood,but also some interesting ideas.

It sucks when your girl is a recovering junkie. Its also not to good that shes went back to being a stripper. What sucks the most is she has terminal cancer and doesn't tell you. Thats just some of the luck our lead character is having in the vampire film "The Thirst".This movie tells the tale of a guy who loses his girl to cancer only for her to be reborn as a vampire thanks to some last minute sucking by a female vampire who "admired" his girlfriends dancing. From there our lead boyfriend finds out about her resurrection and eventually he himself is turned. From there the movie plays out A lot like Near Dark as we meet "The Family" and watch as the main character is taken on a hunt to prove his worth. The bad thing is it does not reach anywhere near the caliber of film that Near Dark was and for a climax we get an ending similar to Return of the Living Dead 3.There are some good things here, very attractive woman all over the place, geysers of blood and some decent moments here and there but the movie as a whole really tries to be a little too much of everything and not a straight forward horror or horror comedy. When movies cannot decide what they want to be that tends to get on my bad side as knowing it is to be one or the other you can get yourself in that mindset whereas with movies of this kind it really tends to make for an uneven ride.In the end "The Thirst" is a marginal movie with good ideas at times and others seemingly taken from other movies of its like to make for a ho hum experience. Low expectations are the key to this one as I give The Thirst: 4/10: Below Average: Not utter garbage but definitely not anything you would want to watch more than once. Odd ball camera-work and some confusion by the writers/filmmakers on what path the movie wanted to tread make this one a cut below average.Thats it for now Pygmies and remember there is a cure for cancer...its Vampirism!!