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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

This is Rob Lamb, and today we are re-airing our Valentine's Day episode from last year.

It is our discussion of the 1983 Tony Scott film The Hunger. This one's a lot of fun.

So, so stylish, so gothy. Let's dive right in.

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This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick.

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody.

Here in today's episode, you know, I really wanted to cover a paranormal love story of some sort

for the holiday. And I gave myself this task and probably spent a little bit too much time

looking at different films and trying to figure out what would be, what felt like the right fit.

I looked at a few different, very well-regarded films that seemed to fit the mold, but

ended up being drawn into today's selection, the highly stylish 1983 erotic horror film The Hunger, a movie that was really only on my radar for being a film in which David Bowie plays a vampire.

But it's actually so much more than just that.

It's become a cult favorite with many due to its heavy goth vibes, its LGBTQ themes,

and it's absolutely bursting at the seams with visual and sonic pizzazz.

And I tell you, I hope you like Venetian blinds because there are a lot of them in this movie. Yes. And doves. J.J. was reminded. J.J. also watched the movie this week. And we were talking about it off mic before we started this. J.J. reminded me that there are just doves in their house all the time. It's full of birds. They have like an open

air attic as just birds coming going all the time. Yes. Yeah. I watched this one with my wife.

And in fact, it was partially her suggestion. I was brainstorming all these ideas. And she pulled up

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