BoxOffice: $296,441 Awards: 12 wins & 18 nominations. Production: Focus Features
Apr 30,2009
Hollywood Movies | Drama | Thriller | Horror
Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways. Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho), a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life as a vampire. Now, Sang-hyun is torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), the wife of his childhood friend.
| nudity | Shot from behind of a man masturbating as he wears only a shirt. A man's butt is seen as he lies down on the floor in the nude. A woman takes off her top and her breasts are seen. She starts to have sex on top of a man but they are interrupted (the side of his butt is seen). Her breasts and his butt are seen as they start have sex. They move faster and faster until the man climaxes inside the woman. A man's butt is seen as he lies sideways on a bed. A woman says that she used to help a man masturbate. A nude woman and man lie face down on a bed (their butts are seen). A man sticks his hand down a woman's panties and asks her why she is so wet. A man (butt is seen) and a woman have sex with a fully clothed man between them. A woman gets up after sitting on a nude man and he comments about having sex five times in a row. A man attempts to rape a woman (we see his butt). He gets up and his penis is seen. |
| violence | A man has blisters on his body and his fingernail falls off (seen several times). A man coughs up blood while playing a flute. A man sucks some blood from another man's IV (seen several times). A man jumps out of a window, lands on a car and gets his head stuck in the windshield. A man cuts his arm and another man drinks his blood. A man hits his legs with a piece of metal. We see many bruises on his legs. A man bites a woman on the shoulder. A man collects blood from a man's IV in bottles (he is seen drinking one of the bottles). Some wounds are seen on a woman's legs. A fishing hook snags a woman's ear. A man sucks on her bloody ear. A blistered man vomits blood and bleeds from the eyes. A man forces another man to stab himself in the chest with the corkscrew from a pocket knife. As the blood pours out of the wound, the man drinks it. A man throws a woman against a wall. A man chokes a woman until she coughs up blood. A woman cuts her finger and the wound heals itself. A man grabs a woman's foot as she jumps across a roof. She smacks her head into a building and is bloody. A woman throws up a lot of blood on the floor. A man is stabbed in the neck and a woman drinks his blood. A man is choked and blood comes out of his mouth. A woman drinks blood from a man's dead body. A woman is stabbed in the chest and pulls out the bloody knife. A woman breaks many of a man's fingers and we see a bone sticking out of his arm. |
| profanity | 'Cunt, shit, bastard, cock, bitch. The film was subtitled in English. |
| alcohol | - Brief shot of a cigarette being smoked. - A woman drinks heavily. Some other people drink. |
| frightening | Some very intense scenes of violence. |
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