What you get here is a story of a priest who gets a blood transfusion and becomes a vampire. It's a Korean horror film by director Park Chan-wook who also did the awesome OLDBOY and the even more awesome SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE. Like those movies it has an amazingly stylish look to the film and and some disturbing visuals. Unfortunately like those movies it also suffers a bit from a long run-time(over 2 hours!). Unlike those this one goes off into the supernatural realm with the whole blood-drinking, super-hero-powered vampires thing. There's a love story thrown in also that I imagine could remind some people of TWILIGHT(but a TWILIGHT not made for brain-damaged 12 year-olds complete with slit wrists, fountains of blood, boobs and a naked fat man in a coma getting a not-so-sexy sponge bath). I feel overall Park's movies are worth checking out and I always enjoy them while watching them even if I can't see myself sitting through them more than once since unlike these vampires my lifespan is not eternal.
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