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Best Special Effects | 1979 | Conrad
1980 | Rod
Actor David Hemmings once said of this film during filming: "This crew is the best I've worked with in five years. What is happening out here in Australia is very exciting and I plan to become involved...I thought the script for 'Thirst ' was very commercial and had the potential for international success".
Actor Henry Silva once said of being cast in this movie: "I love traveling. That and the script were the reasons I decided to come to Australia".
This film was Australia's first serious vampire movie of the modern Australian cinema. However, it should be noted that vampire characters did actually appear in Bruce Beresford's Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974) where Donald Pleasence starred as Count Erich von Plasma. Moreover, Thirst (1979) is not the only ever modern Australian vampire movie as The Wicked (1987) was later made and released.
The national Australian government agency, the Department of Civil Aviation, banned a stunt where one of the film's villains falls to his death from a helicopter, landing on a number of stobey-pole electric cable wires whereupon he is vividly electrocuted. However, this scene still appears in the film.
Actors with international recognition such as American Henry Silva and British David Hemmings were imported for this Australian film production in order to boost the picture's saleability in foreign markets. Both these actors play characters who are doctors and both have billing down the cast order, at fourth and sixth respectively. This lower billing order for imported actors was unusual for an Australian film at this time. Normally, imported American or British actors received top or higher billing.
"Mrs. Barker: Vampires? We dislike that word. The Brotherhood is something far nobler than peasant superstitions given it credit for. There's nothing supernatural about us Kate. Mr. Hodge: Oh, we're simply a superior race of people who, over the centuries, have proved that the drinking of the vital human essence confers youth, power. It's the ultimate aristocratic act."
