In 1983, director Tony Scott released his debut feature film,

an art house vampire movie starring David Bowie called The Hunger. The film opens with

gothic rock star Peter Murphy performing his hit single, Bella Legosi's Dead.

In many ways it's hard to think of a more apt opening to a film which would usher the

vampire subgenre into a whole new era. The 1980s transformed the vampire movie into something

more hip, mainstream and something that skewed towards a younger audience. Films like The Hunger,

The Lost Boys and Near Dark would prove just how malleable, cool and enduringly popular

The Vampire Movie could be. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of The Vampire

and we discuss Tony Scott's The Hunger and Catherine Bigelow's Near Dark.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munster and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this podcast we explore and dissect

the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at a particular subgenre's one series

at a time. We are currently in the middle of our eighth series exploring the evolution of the

vampire movie and this is part 14. This week's episode is sponsored by $20 Patreon subscriber

Matthew Taylor and in this week's episode as that intro suggested we're moving into the 1980s to

discuss two incredibly cool vampire films by two incredibly cool directors. That's Near Dark

from 1987 and The Hunger from 1983. So later on in this episode I'll be joined by producer

Jen Handolf to discuss Near Dark in detail but first of all let's get into The Hunger.

Joining me to discuss The Hunger we've got a returning guest she was here only a few weeks ago

in the vampire series discussing Dracula with me and she's back. Welcome to the podcast filmmaker

Axel Carolyn. Hello Axel. Hi, long time Mike. It's been such a long time. How have you been?

How's your summer been so far? It's been great. It's been great. I just got back from shooting

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