"It's a largely sensual movie, in both senses of that word: it is about experiencing moments communicated through just about every means other than sensible character psychology. I can easily understand why somebody would find the movie accordingly hollow and annoying in its hip violence, but for horror to have this kind of impressionist impact, it must be doing something great, even if that something isn't quite in line with the film's intimations that it wants to be about human experiences of sex and longing (the "hunger" of the title"). It's one of the most viscerally impressive horror movies of the '80s, it plays the "tragic sexual vampire" card without defanging the monsters, and it's consistently gorgeous - I can't quite decide whether The Hunger is successful at being the exact film it sets out to be, but it is a very successful film of some sort, and that's close enough." - Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy