I was COMPLETELY mesmerized by this film because I loved the concept of this woman who was in essence given everything a human being would need to survive and still gave into her baser instincts and became even more of a monster than before.

I believe that she started out as a petty criminal before they gave her the operation, so it was already in her to be this way already so I don’t think they could have blamed it on the injection unless there was someone else to compare her progress with or a lab animal with similar characteristics- like a primate.

This added a much needed balance to Whitley Streib’s novel “The Hunger”, as the supernatural condition was given biological rules and parameters.

I simply adored the scenes where she would go for a Sunday drive with her rich new husband, and then run them both off a cliff in the convertible, dust herself off and walk home to plot her next marriage.

Genius!

I have kind of a photographic memory and only saw the film only once (30 years ago) when I was six, but those scenes stood out for me- (almost as the one in the very beginning of the film where she runs into a dressing room-being pursued by the police as a brunette, changes into the clothing hanging in the room, and walks out as a platinum blonde as all the cops are drooling all over her!!

It was a great lesson to me as a child that people only look at the surface and are always prone to fall victim to those whom their prejudices judge as being more desirable than themselves!

I wouldn’t have touched her with a ten foot pole just cause her saccharine sweet personality barely concealed her contempt for humanity.