Vampires are everywhere at the moment – TV (as discussed below in my review of ‘True Blood’ below), written fiction (in Guillermo del Toros ‘The Strain’) and don’t doubt that the Twilight sequel will be the biggest movie of the year despite only being released in November. A far less well manicured movie, but one that looks like a visceral trip is ‘Thirst’ from director Park Chan-Wook (’Oldboy’) released on 16th October.  A vampire priest tempted by the 7 deadly sins, seems like a tabloid editors wet dream; the trailer seems to want to portray a someway tragic story, juxtaposed with some gore.

Said gore is highlighted in the trailer available at the official website here. The link here is to a competition to win a trip to London to meet the director.