Park Chan-wook is a great director too – not the first time we’ve heard about him this Halloween month – and this film is the perfect sum of his cinema. In the sense that it is full of the madness and violence that we know of (Old Boy), eroticism (Mademoiselle), while having a thriller side (Sympathy for Mister Vengeance), and tells the story of the construction of a relationship complicated (the too little known JSA (Joint Security Area))… But the film is stranger and more surprising than that. It is actually a free interpretation of Thérèse Raquin, famous novel by Émile Zola. But with Korean vampire sauce, with an original premise. We follow a Catholic priest, Korean therefore, who is going to do clinical trials for a vaccine for a serious illness. A fiasco, which kills him. But one of the blood transfusions he received contains vampire blood. He then becomes a being tortured between his love of God and his need for blood. He meets an old friend, and falls in love with his wife. If you know Zola’s novel, you know the rest.
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