The Hunger - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Hunger or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Hunger

[jessie]

Hans Zimmer was considered to score the film by music director Howard Blake but Tony Scott turned him down. Ironically, Scott would later employ Zimmer for a number of films (and tried to get him for, Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) but the studio refused).

[oscar]

The piece of music played at the piano is "The Flower Duet" (French: Sous le dôme épais) from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé. The duet has often been used in commercials; not unsurprisingly, director Tony Scott directed commercials before directing this film.

[charlie]

David Bowie said of this film after it was made: "I must say, there's nothing that looks like it on the market. But I'm a bit worried that it's just perversely bloody at some points".

[fred]

The movie has become a cult film since it was first released in 1983.

[ella]

The song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus is heard during the opening credits and start of the film.

[toni]

There was only one week's shooting in New York and that was for exteriors.

[liam]

Under the direction of the MGM studio, the film's ending was changed so as to allow for the possibility of sequels and a franchise, something common to the horror film genre, but no such sequel ever eventuated.

[stephanie]

The miniature cross dagger is called an Ankh. It is also known as the key of life, the key of the Nile and "crux ansata" (from the Latin meaning "cross with a handle"). The Ankh is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character meaning "life", a trilateral sign for three consonants. The knife component of it is something which it was physically adapted into, the blade does not usually exist as part of the symbol. The Ankh knife featured prominently in one of the film's main movie posters.

[amber]

The name of the academic book that Dr Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon) wrote was "Sleep and Longevity".

[eli]

One of four 1983 theatrical films starring David Bowie. The others were a cameo in Yellowbeard (1983), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) and Bowie's concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1979) which had actually been made in 1973, released in the UK then, then distributed wider in 1983.

[ivan]

Willem Dafoe: As a youth at a phone booth.

[nora]

In The Celluloid Closet (1995), the 1995 documentary about the history of homosexuality in film, actress Susan Sarandon said that the screenplay for The Hunger (1983) originally called for her to be demonstrably drunk in the lead-up to her sex scene with Catherine Deneuve, but Sarandon asked for it to be changed so that her character had only a single sip of wine and then spilled the rest of the glass. She said she wanted to make it clear that her character was choosing to have sex with Miriam instead of doing it because of the alcohol, and also because "you wouldn't have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve, I don't care what your sexual history to that point had been."

[gerald]

Source novelist Whitley Strieber wrote two sequels to his novel "The Hunger". They were "The Last Vampire" (2001) and "Lilith's Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life" (2003), but neither have ever been filmed.

[lonnie]

The age of female vampire Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) was six thousand years. The amount of time she had been lovers with John Blaylock (David Bowie) was three hundred years.

[camila]

In an interview with The Daily Beast in late July, 2014, Susan Sarandon revealed that she had an affair with David Bowie while the two were working on this film.