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You Are Good

The Hunger w. Chelsey Weber-Smith

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

"Humankind dies one way, we another." In which we deconstruct vampires, addiction and serial monogamy in The Hunger with Chelsey Weber-Smith.

Chelsey Weber-Smith (and American Hysteria) online:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello you. Welcome to You Are Good of Feelings podcast about movies today. We are talking about the hunger.

0:17.7

We're talking about the hunger with our great friend Chelsea Weber Smith. I'm one of

0:21.9

your hosts, Alex Steed, and I will soon be joined by my marvelous co-host, Sarah Marshall. If you're

0:28.8

unfamiliar with you, we are a good, a feelings podcast about movies. We are feelings podcast about

0:33.0

movies. This is what that means. We are not film critics. We are people who watch these movies

0:36.7

and go, what does this make me think about

0:38.7

with regard to how I relate to the world and other people

0:42.1

and so on and so forth?

0:44.5

The Hunger is a 1983 erotic horror film

0:48.7

directed by Tony Scott in his directorial debut

0:51.2

stars Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon,

0:56.1

features makeup effects by Dick Smith.

0:58.5

We'll talk about that in this episode.

1:00.0

And it has accrued a cult following within the goth subculture in the years since it's released.

1:05.9

Thank you so much for this information, Wikipedia.org.

1:10.2

Chelsea Weber Smith is our friend. Chelsea Weber-Smith is our friend.

1:12.3

Chelsea Weaver Smith is the host of American hysteria.

1:15.4

You hear Chelsea across this family of shows, and we love Chelsea.

1:21.2

Check out everything Chelsea does.

1:22.6

I'm a big band of Chelsea Weber-Smith.

1:25.3

How are you doing?

1:26.1

What's going on in your world?

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