Thirst

Sang-hyun survives a failed experiment via a transfusion that makes him a vampire, and the film's actual subject is what happens when a truly devout man is given an appetite he cannot pray away.

The Zola is Thérèse Raquin: he falls for the miserable wife of a childhood friend, and the second half is a domestic murder story in which two people who have done something appalling cannot stop looking at each other.

Song Kang-ho plays the whole thing straight, which lets the film be extremely funny without ever being a comedy.

Park shoots the vampirism as practical and undignified: drinking from a coma patient's drip, vomiting, hiding from a sunrise.

It won the Jury Prize at Cannes. The last ten minutes, on a rock at dawn, are unexpectedly tender.