"The Hunger" is an agonizingly bad vampire movie, circling around an exquisitely effective sex scene.... I mention the scene so prominently because it's one of the few scenes that really work in "The Hunger," a movie that has been so ruthlessly overproduced that it's all flash and style and no story.

Miriam the vampire subsists on the blood of her lovers, who do not age--until she has had enough of them. John is currently in that position, and is expected to die in the next 24 hours. He seeks help from a doctor who does not believe his story.