Hungry for Clarimonde
I have to admit when I first picked up The Hunger , I did so based solely on the attractive cover art of a blond vampiress clad in a tight red bodice, being bitten on the neck from behind by an amorous lover. I am a sucker for packaging. But popping the fourth disk of the complete first season into my DVD player revealed something of a different nature. The Hunger is a mini series from 1997 that premiered on Showtime and was the brainchild of Tom and Ridley Scott. The entire series has an Outer Limits feel with each episode exploring an entirely new story rather than continuing a previous plot. In the tradition of Tales from the Crypt or the ghost hosts of the fifties and sixties, Terrence Stamp introduces each of the episodes along with the moral they are supposed to teach. Despite the connection the cover art makes to vampires, there are only one or two episodes explicitly related to the undead. Among them is Nunc Dimittis, in which an ancient female vampire and her aging assistan...