Jeremy Kasten Interview

There's a nice interview with Jeremy Kasten over at IFMagazine.com, and he talks a little about The Thirst. Sound like it's going to be a great film!

iF: You just completed a second film for Mark A. Altman – THE THIRST. Can you tell me a little bit about that film and how different was it from lensing ALL SOULS DAY.



KASTEN: THE THIRST is a brutally honest look at love, addiction and the afterlife – all in the context of vampires. We aren’t the first to parallel addiction and vampirism but I’d say we are the first to be so overt about it. In the movie our lead characters, Matt Keeslar and Clare Kramer, are in recovery, they are ex-junkies. Also, she is dying of cancer and ends up killing herself – or so we think. He thinks he sees her and tracks her to a band of lunatics – The Family – led by Jeremy Sisto. The family includes Adam Baldwin and Serena Scott Thomas. They are all vampires from no specific time or place – it’s like they’ve forgotten where they originated. That is barely scratching the surface of the story.



There is so much more going on in this film but the thing I am most proud of is that it is really an exploitation film in the best sense. I think it might be the bloodiest vampire film ever, and there’s lots of nudity and violence. But at the same time it really is a very interesting, very human story. In other words, I think I’ve actually succeeded at the trickiest thing a horror filmmaker faces: making the characters likeable, interesting and just generally not lame.