The Hunger
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The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.
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1Episode 1The Swords
28 min
A man gets into a relationship with a woman who can survive being peirced by swords.
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Episode 2Menage a Trois
27 min
A wheelchair bound woman uses her nurse in a plan to seduce a young workman.
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Episode 3Necros
28 min
A man named Philip Casnoff falls for a beautiful woman. Her old companion, however, may be a vampire.
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Episode 4The Secret Shih-Tan
28 min
A gourmet chef is paid an enormous amount of money to prepare a meal from a secret book called Shi-Than.
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Episode 5Bridal Suite
26 min
A couple on their honeymoon discover a horrible truth about a bed that is said to have been cursed for all adulterous lovers
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Episode 6Room 17
26 min
A man rents a room in order to watch a special set of erotic movies.
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Episode 7Anaïs
27 min
An architect spends his time fantasizing about a made-up woman he calls "Anais" but the imaginary woman begins to have real desires.
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Episode 8No Radio
27 min
A kidnapper gets more than he expected when he abducts his married lover.
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Episode 9But At My Back I Always Hear
27 min
A professor is stalked by a young female student.
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Episode 10Red Light
27 min
A supermodel lives in fear over flashes from the lights of cameras,believing that they will steal her soul.
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Episode 11I'm Dangerous Tonight
27 min
A red dress by a famous fashion designer causes strange behavior in the people who wear it.
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Episode 12The Sloan Men
26 min
Through a shocking revelation by her future mother-in-law, a young woman comes to realize her fiance and his father aren't exactly human.
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Episode 13A Matter of Style
26 min
A young inept burglar is bitten by a beautiful vampiress, who tries to teach him how to be a vampire.
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Episode 14Hidebound
26 min
A young female security guard is attacked by a murderous spirit visible only to her.
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Episode 15Fly by Night
26 min
A mental patient haunted by horrible wartime flashbacks gets shut up with a vampire.
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Episode 16A River of Night's Dreaming
26 min
A female convict escapes from a prison transport and hides at the home of an elderly woman.
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Episode 17The Lighthouse
26 min
A lighthouse-keeper, trapped at his post during a hurricane, begins to question his sanity.
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Episode 18The Face of Helene Bournouw
26 min
A reporter investigates a woman whose beauty literally drives men mad.
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Episode 19Plain Brown Envelope
27 min
On a cold and snowy night, a young hitchhiker stows away in the back of a large truck that turns out to be the warehouse of a sex fantasy salesman.
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Episode 20The Other Woman
26 min
The mistress of a married man has visions of being murdered by his wife.
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Episode 21Clarimonde
26 min
A strange beautiful woman seems to get a thrill from seducing men about to become priests.
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Episode 22Footsteps
26 min
A lovely vampiress who seduces and drains a different man every night meets a man who claims to be a vegetarian.
