Thirst
Thirst is a 1979 film from Australia, directed by Rod Hardy, running 98 minutes. reelscum files it under Ozploitation.
- Year
- 1979 · 1970s films
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Director
- Rod Hardy
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (54/100)
Defined in the glossary: Ozploitation
A secret society farms humans for blood. Ozploitation does vampires as corporate agribusiness.
An unusual Australian vampire film in which a woman is kidnapped by a modern secret society, the Brotherhood, who believe themselves descended from Elizabeth Bathory and run an industrial operation farming humans for blood, complete with a dairy-style facility. The idea of vampirism as corporate agribusiness is clever.
Rod Hardy directs it with a cool, clinical style, and the brainwashing sequences are effective. It is a smarter, stranger take on the vampire film than its Ozploitation packaging suggests, and one of the more conceptually interesting entries in the Australian cycle.
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The cycle in depth
- Ozploitation: the Australian genre boom, 1971 to 1986
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