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    Thirst (1979)

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    Successful Australian businesswoman Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is kidnapped by a cult of modern-day vampires and self-proclaimed supermen known as ‘The Hyma  Brotherhood’.

    They have a ‘farm’ in a remote Australian location where they harvest blood from the “blood cows” – clinically ‘milking’ blood from brainwashed and sedated people, filtering it and testing it for impurities, and distributing it in milk cartons to vampires all around the world.

    Kate is revealed to be a descendant of 17th-century Hungarian serial killer and bloodsucker extraordinaire Elisabeth Bathory (known as “The Blood Countess”) but refuses to accept her birthright as a vampire and join the cult.

    Kate manages to escape, stealing a truck to make her getaway. But with dreadful inevitability, the truck breaks down and who should happen along but the leaders of the group in their Rolls Royce, who help her back to the Farm.

    They debate whether to give her hallucinogens in order to break down her resistance and brainwash her. Psychologist Dr Fraser (David Hemmings) is against the idea but is outnumbered and the group use an experimental psychotropic approach which sends Kate teetering on the brink of insanity.

    Kate is duly initiated into the cult, feasts on blood and is returned home.

    Sadly, with around 15 minutes to go, the film loses its magic, and while the last scene is quite good, Thirst does not recover. 

    Kate Davis
    Chantal Contouri
    Mrs Barker
    Shirley Cameron
    Mr Hodge
    Max Phipps
    Dr Gauss
    Henry Silva
    Derek Whitehall
    Rod Mullinar
    Dr Fraser
    David Hemmings
    Lori
    Rosie Sturgess
    Sean
    Robert Thompson
    Ditcher
    Walter Pym
    Leah
    Jacqui Gordon
    Toni
    Val Christensen
    Martha
    Amanda Muggleton
    David
    Christopher Milne
    Nurse
    Lulu Pinkus

    Director
    Rod Hardy

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