A Love Letter From My Teenage Goth Heart To Tony Scott’s "The Hunger"

BuzzFeed - Latest 2015-08-19

Summary:

You know, the ’80s vampire film starring David Bowie in a rubber old-man suit.

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The Hunger lied to me.

The Hunger told me that goth clubs have Bauhaus singing "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in a cage on the regular, with noted cadaverous motherfucker Peter Murphy – flipping his jacket over his head to look like a cross between a bat and the Afghan Girl from the cover of National Geographic – backlit by blue light piercing through smoke from 400 cigarettes sucked down by hot pale people with cheekbones like razors.

The Hunger / MGM

That is how The Hunger opens. It is the first lie in this '80s Bonnie Tyler video of a vampire film, which might have got filed under HORROR or EROTIC DRAMA depending on which video store clerk was working that day.

The Hunger told me that people in goth clubs look like David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, and that when you go home with people who look like David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve they pour drinks from crystal decanters into crystal glasses that they keep in their lush museum apartments. The Hunger told me that even though they have a four-poster bed draped with cream chiffon, David Bowie will have sex with you on the kitchen bench instead, and Catherine Deneuve won't even stop to put her cigarette out before she kills you for food.


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Authors:

Hayley Campbell

Date tagged:

08/19/2015, 09:01

Date published:

08/19/2015, 08:46