Thanks goes out to CHUD for pointing out the first trailer for Chan-wook Park’s vampire drama Thirst starring Kang-ho Song (The Host). The trailer is entirely in Korean so unless you understand the language you are only getting are moving images, but we are talking about awareness here folks.
The film is set to hit theaters in Korea in April and as for the Stateside release date there is no word, although Focus Features does hold distribution rights.
As for the plot, the film centers on Sang-hyun, a small town beloved and admired priest who serves devotedly at a hospital, volunteers for the new infectious disease, F.I.V.’s, vaccine development experiment and goes to Africa. The experiment fails and Sang-hyun gets infected by F.I.V. but he ends up being miraculously cured and returns home. News of Sang-hyun’s cure from F.I.V. spreads and people start believing he has the gift of healing and flock to receive his prayers. From those who come to him, Sang-yun meets a childhood friend named Kang-woo and his wife Tae-ju. Sang-hyun is immediately drawn to Tae-ju. One day, Sang-hyun coughs up blood, dies, and comes back to life the next day as a vampire. Tae-ju gets attracted to Sang-hyun, turned vampire, and they have a secret love affair. Sang-hyun asks Tae-ju to run away with him but she turns him down. Instead, they plot to kill Kang-woo.
Check out the trailer below and you can get look at some images right here as well as some additional footage right here.
