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''Thirst'' is a 2009 horror/drama film directed by Creator/ParkChanWook, best known for ''Film/JointSecurityArea'' and his ''Vengeance Trilogy.'' The film is a very loose adaptation of the French novel ''Literature/ThereseRaquin'' by Emile Zola.
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''Thirst'' is a 2009 horror/drama film directed by Creator/ParkChanWook, best known for ''Film/JointSecurityArea'' and his ''Vengeance Trilogy.'' The film is a very loose adaptation of the French novel ''Literature/ThereseRaquin'' by Emile Zola.
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** [[spoiler: When Tae-ju refuses to drink blood if it's not directly from a living source,]] Sang-hyun settles for summoning the doctor that confessed to taking his time responding to a long-term patient's medical emergency in the hopes he would die earlier than expected and end the frustration of dealing with him. As a bonus, that very incident was what drove Sang-hyun to volunteer for the medical experiment that turned him into a vampire, meaning he indirectly caused the chain of events that came back to [[JustForPun bite]] "bite" him.
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The film follows Sang-hyun, a Korean Catholic priest who contracts vampirism during a medical experiment. Still motivated by his strict religious upbringing, Sang-hyun commits himself to feeding through non-harmful means. Soon, however, he bows to his increasingly powerful urges and becomes infatuated with Tae-ju, the Literature/{{Cinderella}}-like wife of a childhood acquaintance. Sang-hyun soon begins making moral concessions to get closer to Tae-ju, who turns out to be much more dangerous than he could have imagined.
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The film follows Sang-hyun, Sang-hyun (Creator/SongKangHo), a Korean Catholic priest who contracts vampirism during a medical experiment. Still motivated by his strict religious upbringing, Sang-hyun commits himself to feeding through non-harmful means. Soon, however, he bows to his increasingly powerful urges and becomes infatuated with Tae-ju, Tae-ju (Kim Ok-bin), the Literature/{{Cinderella}}-like wife of a childhood acquaintance. Sang-hyun soon begins making moral concessions to get closer to Tae-ju, who turns out to be much more dangerous than he could have imagined.
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* FullyEmbracedFiend: [[spoiler: Tae-ju rather quickly after becoming a vampire, where she indiscriminately kills people left and right, many of whom are her friends and colligues, and shows no restraint whatsoever of ''any'' kind - further contrasted with Song-Hyun's attempts to be a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.]]
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* FullyEmbracedFiend: [[spoiler: Tae-ju rather quickly after becoming a vampire, where she indiscriminately kills people left and right, many of whom are her friends and colligues, colleagues, and shows no restraint whatsoever of ''any'' kind - further contrasted with Song-Hyun's attempts to be a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.]]
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* UndeadBarefooter: {{Inverted}} with Tae-ju who preferred going barefoot while she was alive, but starts wearing higher and higher-heeled shoes as she transforms into a vampire.
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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Initially, the meek and withdrawn Tae-ju prefers to go barefoot all the time - including running around the neighbourhood, much to Sang-hyun's confusion. But the more she descends morally, the more and higher-heeled shoes she owns.
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* TheVamp: [[spoiler: Tae-ju slowly turns into a literal version, eventually becoming both a full-blown vamp and a vampire, while having Sang-hyun tightly wrapped around her finger]].
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tae-ju, initially. Her increasing liking for shoes balances her moral decay.
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* AdoptAServant: Tae-ju was taken in by Lady Ra as less of a surrogate daughter and more of an unofficial housekeeper - and eventually, [[NotBloodSiblings as a wife to her son.]]
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* VampiresAreSexGods: Played with. Sang-hyun [[TheGlassesGottaGo no longer needs his glasses]], dropping the mousy posture and easily attracting female attention, while [[spoiler: Tae-ju [[SheCleansUpNicely cleans up nicely]], both in her appearance and confidence]]. On the flip-side, the virus that causes vampirism comes from a disease with leprosy-like symptoms. And the only thing keeping it at bay is fresh, healthy blood, thus combining HorrorHunger with GlamourFailure.
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* AllWomenLoveShoes: [[spoiler: Tae-ju initially prefers walking barefoot and actively avoids shoes. But the more depraved she gets, the higher her heels get - and more numerous, too]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A doctor confesses to Sang-hyun that he was so sick of dealing with an elderly, seemingly-terminal patient, he deliberately dragged his feet responding to a medical emergency in the hopes he would die already. Instead the patient slips into a coma and sticks around for a year rather than the previously-assumed two months.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: AwfulWeddedLife: Tae-ju is married to a man she not only doesn't love, but openly hate, while [[WifeHusbandry being raised]] by her future mother-in-law to be her rent-free maid. [[spoiler: While Tae-ju was lying, just to gain Sang-hyun's sympathy, at least part of her story was genuine]].
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** A doctor confesses to Sang-hyun that he was so sick of dealing with an elderly, seemingly-terminal patient, he deliberately dragged his feet responding to a medical emergency in the hopes he would die already. Instead the patient slips into a coma and sticks around for a year rather than the previously-assumed twomonths.months.
** Tae-ju [[IJustWantToBeSpecial wants something more]] out of her miserable life. She gets her wishes fulfilled once Sang-hyun starts his moral descent, for better or worse.
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** A doctor confesses to Sang-hyun that he was so sick of dealing with an elderly, seemingly-terminal patient, he deliberately dragged his feet responding to a medical emergency in the hopes he would die already. Instead the patient slips into a coma and sticks around for a year rather than the previously-assumed two
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* CueTheSunCueTheSun: The sunrise in the finale.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: In the end, Sang-hyun just calmly waits for the sunrise, embracing Tae-ju. This is further contrasted with Tae-ju, who, while accepting their inevitable deaths, cries in despair and is visibly scared]].
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->''"Let no one pray for me."''
''Thirst'' is a 2009 horror/drama film directed by Creator/ParkChanWook, best known for ''Film/JointSecurityArea'' and his ''Vengeance Trilogy.'' The film is a very loose adaptation of the French novel ''Literature/ThereseRaquin'' by Emile Zola.
The film follows Sang-hyun, a Korean Catholic priest who contracts vampirism during a medical experiment. Still motivated by his strict religious upbringing, Sang-hyun commits himself to feeding through non-harmful means. Soon, however, he bows to his increasingly powerful urges and becomes infatuated with Tae-ju, the Literature/{{Cinderella}}-like wife of a childhood acquaintance. Sang-hyun soon begins making moral concessions to get closer to Tae-ju, who turns out to be much more dangerous than he could have imagined.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Unlike [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Sang-hyun]], [[spoiler:Tae-ju]] takes this attitude to vampirism, comparing a vampire killing a human to a fox killing a chicken.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Lady Ra finds herself trapped in a house [[spoiler: with her son's murderers.]] For extra horror, [[spoiler: she's also [[AndIMustScream paralyzed from the eyes downward]] and completely reliant on them for survival]].
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Lady Ra.]]
* AscendedExtra: Looking at as an adaptation of ''Therese Raquin'', Laurent (Sang-hyun) is the central character as opposed to Therese (Tae-ju).
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Tae-ju.]]
** [[spoiler: When Tae-ju refuses to drink blood if it's not directly from a living source,]] Sang-hyun settles for summoning the doctor that confessed to taking his time responding to a long-term patient's medical emergency in the hopes he would die earlier than expected and end the frustration of dealing with him. As a bonus, that very incident was what drove Sang-hyun to volunteer for the medical experiment that turned him into a vampire, meaning he indirectly caused the chain of events that came back to [[JustForPun bite]] him.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A doctor confesses to Sang-hyun that he was so sick of dealing with an elderly, seemingly-terminal patient, he deliberately dragged his feet responding to a medical emergency in the hopes he would die already. Instead the patient slips into a coma and sticks around for a year rather than the previously-assumed two months.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sang-hyun.
* BlackComedy: There are a few moments of dark humor, like when Sang-hyun and Tae-ju are arguing over whether they should go through with their plan [[spoiler:of murdering Kang-woo. While Kang-woo is sitting right next to them, meekly suggesting that they don't.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth:
** Blood pours out of Sang-hyun's mouth as he plays the flute just before he dies of the EV disease. Of course, he doesn't stay dead. It happens again later when he experiences another resurgence of the disease.
** [[spoiler:Tae-ju's mouth pours blood when Sang-hyun crushes her throat. He licks the blood off of her chest until deciding to turn her.]]
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: After abstaining from blood for a time, the EV disease causes blood to pour from Sang-hyun's eyes and ears.
* BrokenPedestal: Sang-hyun is horrified and repulsed when his mentor, a blind old priest, begs to be turned so that he can regain his sight. This leads him to reject both his faith and the priesthood.
* CarCushion: Sang-hyun attempts suicide by jumping out of the hospital window after discovering his new condition. With only three cars parked against the hospital, of course he lands on one of them.
* CueTheSun
* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:Sang-hyun makes Tae-ju think he killed Evelyn, but spares her life.]]
* DestructiveRomance: Between Sang-hyun and Tae-ju.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tae-ju, initially. Her increasing liking for shoes balances her moral decay.
* DoubleMeaning: Everyone at the table thinks that Sang-hyun and Tae-ju talk about Majhong while they actually talk about having sex.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Tae-ju kills all her friends and Sang-hyun and her drive out to the edge of a cliff. Sang-hyun does a HeroicSuicide and makes it so that Tae-ju dies with him.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Tae-ju, especially after [[spoiler: becoming a vampire, when her already pale skin becomes porcelain white.]]
* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:Sang-hyun nearly strangles Tae-ju to death when he realizes that she lied about Kang-Wu abusing her, then changes his mind at the last minute and vampirises her before she dies.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: '''ALL''' the main characters minus Lady Ra die at the end.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Tae-ju started off as a mistreated [[TheWoobie Woobie]] berated by her mother-in-law and in an unloving relationship with Kang-woo. [[spoiler: Then when she becomes a vampire, she kills people indiscriminately, including her close circle of friends.]]
* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: Vampire blood is hinted to be able to heal not just its owners injuries and ailments, but others' as well. A minuscule amount falling in [[spoiler: Lady Ra's]] food may have had a small effect on her paralysis; before consuming it she is visibly trying and failing to move her hand, whereas afterward, she successfully begins moving a single finger, [[spoiler: which leads to her outing Sang-hyun and Tae-ju for murdering her son.]]
** Also makes [[spoiler: Priest Roh's]] fate HarsherInHindsight: a few drops of blood, rather than becoming a vampire, may have been enough [[spoiler: to cure his blindness.]] Same goes for the people convinced that Sang-hyun could cure their various ills.
* FemmeFatale: Tae-ju, who [[spoiler:seduces Sang-hyun, convinces him to murder her husband and, after he turns her into a vampire, becomes a gleefully amoral predator]].
* {{Fingore}}:
** When Sang-Hyun volunteers for the medical study he suffers the effects of the Emmanuel Virus, one of which is his fingernails falling out.
** Also, [[spoiler: Tae-ju]] breaks several of [[spoiler: Sang-Hyun's]] fingers while trying to force him to let go of a trunk hood.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: With a bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall thrown in; [[spoiler: soon after becoming a vampire,]] Tae-ju turns on the television for Lady Ra to watch, remarking that "a scary movie's gonna be on". It marks a point when the horror ramps up [[spoiler: as Tae-ju becomes increasingly amoral and murderous.]]
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Sang-hyun does his best not to kill anyone. He takes blood from a comatose patient he believes would have given his blood freely to the hungry. He also provides peaceful suicides.
* FullyEmbracedFiend [[spoiler: Tae-ju rather quickly after becoming a vampire.]]
* HemoErotic: When Sang-hyun is alone with Tae-ju, he wants to have sex with her ''and'' wants to drink her blood - and does both, at the same time. She wonders out loud if it is weird that [[TooKinkyToTorture she enjoys it.]]
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: Sang-hyun.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: The two main characters experience quite a lot of this, though their relationship was fraying well before Tae-ju becomes a vampire.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Arguably Tae-ju.
* MayDecemberRomance: Perhaps not intentional on the director's part, but the actors playing Sang-hyun and Tae-ju are twenty years apart.
* MyBelovedSmother: Lady Ra dotes on Kang-woo, who always seems to be ill.
* NeverOneMurder: [[spoiler:Tae-ju ends up killing most of her family's friends after Lady Ra conveys to them that she and Sang-hyun killed Kang-Woo.]]
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Using a simple code of slow/fast blinks, Mrs. Ra reveals that Tae-ju and Sang-hyun [[spoiler: killed Kang-woo]].
* OhCrap: Tae-ju when she drunkenly lets slip that [[spoiler:Kang-Woo never hit her, which was Sang-hyun's motivation to kill him in the first place]].
** Lady Ra gets one of truly epic proportions when Tae-ju blurts out [[spoiler: they had murdered Kang-woo.]] One can clearly see, even through her lack of expression, the absolute horror of her situation come crashing down: [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream Completely paralyzed, utterly helpless]], and [[AloneWithThePsycho entirely at the mercy of her son's murderers]].]] And that's ''before'' she witness [[spoiler: Sang-hyun brutally murder Tae-ju and start gorging on her blood...]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampire blood can heal your infirmities and illnesses, but only so long as you're full of it. Vampires don't grow fangs, but they can still suck blood from bite wounds. They're super-strong and almost totally immune to damage, but do have the typical weakness to sunlight. Sang-hyun also briefly flies.
-->Park Chan-wook: I had the idea of telling a story about a Catholic priest first, so in having him turn into a vampire… If he had a fear of the cross, or the crucifix, it just wouldn’t make the rest of the story viable at all. So, actually, I had to get rid of that convention. And also, in Korea, all the food that you eat has garlic in it. They put garlic into everything in Korea. So, if you’re scared of garlic, there’s no drop of blood you can feed on in Korea. [[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42042]]
* ReligiousVampire: The whole plot revolves around what would have happened if a Catholic priest became a vampire. While desperately trying to cling to his faith as a way of remaining a good person, [[spoiler:he ultimately gives into despair and decides to kill himself alongside the woman he loved because she turned into a monster]].
* RiddleForTheAges: Sang-hyun seems to believe that he got a transfusion of vampire blood in Africa. How vampire blood came to be in an African hospital is never explained, nor does Sang-hyun make any attempt to find out.
* StopWorshippingMe: Sang-hyun becomes famous as "the bandaged saint" after miraculously surviving EV. A small group of followers camp outside his monastery, to his great annoyance. In the end he [[spoiler:pretends to try to rape one of them so that they'll abandon their vigil.]]
* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:Definitely on Sang-hyun's part, less voluntarily on Tae-Ju's.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Sang-hyun to Tae-ju.]]
* UnreliableExpositor: [[spoiler: Tae-ju.]]
* WickedStepmother: A subversion. Lady Ra is tough on Tae-ju, but during a drinking session she reveals that she does care about Tae-ju and plans to put the family business in her name. Tae-ju makes Sang-hyun believe that her family is much worse than they really are.
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->''"Let no one pray for me."''
''Thirst'' is a 2009 horror/drama film directed by Creator/ParkChanWook, best known for ''Film/JointSecurityArea'' and his ''Vengeance Trilogy.'' The film is a very loose adaptation of the French novel ''Literature/ThereseRaquin'' by Emile Zola.
The film follows Sang-hyun, a Korean Catholic priest who contracts vampirism during a medical experiment. Still motivated by his strict religious upbringing, Sang-hyun commits himself to feeding through non-harmful means. Soon, however, he bows to his increasingly powerful urges and becomes infatuated with Tae-ju, the Literature/{{Cinderella}}-like wife of a childhood acquaintance. Sang-hyun soon begins making moral concessions to get closer to Tae-ju, who turns out to be much more dangerous than he could have imagined.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Unlike [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Sang-hyun]], [[spoiler:Tae-ju]] takes this attitude to vampirism, comparing a vampire killing a human to a fox killing a chicken.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Lady Ra finds herself trapped in a house [[spoiler: with her son's murderers.]] For extra horror, [[spoiler: she's also [[AndIMustScream paralyzed from the eyes downward]] and completely reliant on them for survival]].
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Lady Ra.]]
* AscendedExtra: Looking at as an adaptation of ''Therese Raquin'', Laurent (Sang-hyun) is the central character as opposed to Therese (Tae-ju).
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Tae-ju.]]
** [[spoiler: When Tae-ju refuses to drink blood if it's not directly from a living source,]] Sang-hyun settles for summoning the doctor that confessed to taking his time responding to a long-term patient's medical emergency in the hopes he would die earlier than expected and end the frustration of dealing with him. As a bonus, that very incident was what drove Sang-hyun to volunteer for the medical experiment that turned him into a vampire, meaning he indirectly caused the chain of events that came back to [[JustForPun bite]] him.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A doctor confesses to Sang-hyun that he was so sick of dealing with an elderly, seemingly-terminal patient, he deliberately dragged his feet responding to a medical emergency in the hopes he would die already. Instead the patient slips into a coma and sticks around for a year rather than the previously-assumed two months.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sang-hyun.
* BlackComedy: There are a few moments of dark humor, like when Sang-hyun and Tae-ju are arguing over whether they should go through with their plan [[spoiler:of murdering Kang-woo. While Kang-woo is sitting right next to them, meekly suggesting that they don't.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth:
** Blood pours out of Sang-hyun's mouth as he plays the flute just before he dies of the EV disease. Of course, he doesn't stay dead. It happens again later when he experiences another resurgence of the disease.
** [[spoiler:Tae-ju's mouth pours blood when Sang-hyun crushes her throat. He licks the blood off of her chest until deciding to turn her.]]
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: After abstaining from blood for a time, the EV disease causes blood to pour from Sang-hyun's eyes and ears.
* BrokenPedestal: Sang-hyun is horrified and repulsed when his mentor, a blind old priest, begs to be turned so that he can regain his sight. This leads him to reject both his faith and the priesthood.
* CarCushion: Sang-hyun attempts suicide by jumping out of the hospital window after discovering his new condition. With only three cars parked against the hospital, of course he lands on one of them.
* CueTheSun
* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:Sang-hyun makes Tae-ju think he killed Evelyn, but spares her life.]]
* DestructiveRomance: Between Sang-hyun and Tae-ju.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tae-ju, initially. Her increasing liking for shoes balances her moral decay.
* DoubleMeaning: Everyone at the table thinks that Sang-hyun and Tae-ju talk about Majhong while they actually talk about having sex.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Tae-ju kills all her friends and Sang-hyun and her drive out to the edge of a cliff. Sang-hyun does a HeroicSuicide and makes it so that Tae-ju dies with him.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Tae-ju, especially after [[spoiler: becoming a vampire, when her already pale skin becomes porcelain white.]]
* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler:Sang-hyun nearly strangles Tae-ju to death when he realizes that she lied about Kang-Wu abusing her, then changes his mind at the last minute and vampirises her before she dies.]]
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: '''ALL''' the main characters minus Lady Ra die at the end.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Tae-ju started off as a mistreated [[TheWoobie Woobie]] berated by her mother-in-law and in an unloving relationship with Kang-woo. [[spoiler: Then when she becomes a vampire, she kills people indiscriminately, including her close circle of friends.]]
* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: Vampire blood is hinted to be able to heal not just its owners injuries and ailments, but others' as well. A minuscule amount falling in [[spoiler: Lady Ra's]] food may have had a small effect on her paralysis; before consuming it she is visibly trying and failing to move her hand, whereas afterward, she successfully begins moving a single finger, [[spoiler: which leads to her outing Sang-hyun and Tae-ju for murdering her son.]]
** Also makes [[spoiler: Priest Roh's]] fate HarsherInHindsight: a few drops of blood, rather than becoming a vampire, may have been enough [[spoiler: to cure his blindness.]] Same goes for the people convinced that Sang-hyun could cure their various ills.
* FemmeFatale: Tae-ju, who [[spoiler:seduces Sang-hyun, convinces him to murder her husband and, after he turns her into a vampire, becomes a gleefully amoral predator]].
* {{Fingore}}:
** When Sang-Hyun volunteers for the medical study he suffers the effects of the Emmanuel Virus, one of which is his fingernails falling out.
** Also, [[spoiler: Tae-ju]] breaks several of [[spoiler: Sang-Hyun's]] fingers while trying to force him to let go of a trunk hood.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: With a bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall thrown in; [[spoiler: soon after becoming a vampire,]] Tae-ju turns on the television for Lady Ra to watch, remarking that "a scary movie's gonna be on". It marks a point when the horror ramps up [[spoiler: as Tae-ju becomes increasingly amoral and murderous.]]
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Sang-hyun does his best not to kill anyone. He takes blood from a comatose patient he believes would have given his blood freely to the hungry. He also provides peaceful suicides.
* FullyEmbracedFiend [[spoiler: Tae-ju rather quickly after becoming a vampire.]]
* HemoErotic: When Sang-hyun is alone with Tae-ju, he wants to have sex with her ''and'' wants to drink her blood - and does both, at the same time. She wonders out loud if it is weird that [[TooKinkyToTorture she enjoys it.]]
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: Sang-hyun.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: The two main characters experience quite a lot of this, though their relationship was fraying well before Tae-ju becomes a vampire.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Arguably Tae-ju.
* MayDecemberRomance: Perhaps not intentional on the director's part, but the actors playing Sang-hyun and Tae-ju are twenty years apart.
* MyBelovedSmother: Lady Ra dotes on Kang-woo, who always seems to be ill.
* NeverOneMurder: [[spoiler:Tae-ju ends up killing most of her family's friends after Lady Ra conveys to them that she and Sang-hyun killed Kang-Woo.]]
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: Using a simple code of slow/fast blinks, Mrs. Ra reveals that Tae-ju and Sang-hyun [[spoiler: killed Kang-woo]].
* OhCrap: Tae-ju when she drunkenly lets slip that [[spoiler:Kang-Woo never hit her, which was Sang-hyun's motivation to kill him in the first place]].
** Lady Ra gets one of truly epic proportions when Tae-ju blurts out [[spoiler: they had murdered Kang-woo.]] One can clearly see, even through her lack of expression, the absolute horror of her situation come crashing down: [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream Completely paralyzed, utterly helpless]], and [[AloneWithThePsycho entirely at the mercy of her son's murderers]].]] And that's ''before'' she witness [[spoiler: Sang-hyun brutally murder Tae-ju and start gorging on her blood...]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampire blood can heal your infirmities and illnesses, but only so long as you're full of it. Vampires don't grow fangs, but they can still suck blood from bite wounds. They're super-strong and almost totally immune to damage, but do have the typical weakness to sunlight. Sang-hyun also briefly flies.
-->Park Chan-wook: I had the idea of telling a story about a Catholic priest first, so in having him turn into a vampire… If he had a fear of the cross, or the crucifix, it just wouldn’t make the rest of the story viable at all. So, actually, I had to get rid of that convention. And also, in Korea, all the food that you eat has garlic in it. They put garlic into everything in Korea. So, if you’re scared of garlic, there’s no drop of blood you can feed on in Korea. [[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42042]]
* ReligiousVampire: The whole plot revolves around what would have happened if a Catholic priest became a vampire. While desperately trying to cling to his faith as a way of remaining a good person, [[spoiler:he ultimately gives into despair and decides to kill himself alongside the woman he loved because she turned into a monster]].
* RiddleForTheAges: Sang-hyun seems to believe that he got a transfusion of vampire blood in Africa. How vampire blood came to be in an African hospital is never explained, nor does Sang-hyun make any attempt to find out.
* StopWorshippingMe: Sang-hyun becomes famous as "the bandaged saint" after miraculously surviving EV. A small group of followers camp outside his monastery, to his great annoyance. In the end he [[spoiler:pretends to try to rape one of them so that they'll abandon their vigil.]]
* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:Definitely on Sang-hyun's part, less voluntarily on Tae-Ju's.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Sang-hyun to Tae-ju.]]
* UnreliableExpositor: [[spoiler: Tae-ju.]]
* WickedStepmother: A subversion. Lady Ra is tough on Tae-ju, but during a drinking session she reveals that she does care about Tae-ju and plans to put the family business in her name. Tae-ju makes Sang-hyun believe that her family is much worse than they really are.
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