Search - The Hunger - Smoke Mirrors & Paranoia on DVD

What we desire, isn't always what we get......

Tara Handford | Sudbury, Ontario Canada | 07/13/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, this collection of episodes were really great. They seem to deal with obession, desire and pain.



1. The first episode is about a very young wife who is going through some hard times. After the lost of her baby and her marrige begins to crumble. She learns that aunt of hers has passed away and she inherits her place, and the things inside. When she decides to go, to her aunt's place and spend some time there. The woman fines a very strange bottle with some smoke inside. Which can grant it's owner every desire. However, her aunt has left warning about the bottle and the price it has for using it.



2. The second episode is about a man is feeling a little jilted after his girlfriend turns down his marrige proposal. When he decides to drowns his sorrows by surfing the web. However, he comes across a website that provides a very unique service for the jilted. But, after he experinces the website and what it has to offer. He becomes obessed with the website and it begins affecting his life in very dangerous ways.



3. The third episode is pretty straight forward. A writer has an affair with a fan of hers, that goes sour very fast. After she learns that he was obessed with her and he practices the black arts. Crushed, the guy kills himself. However, the mother decides to get revenge on the writer by casting a little curse on her.



4. The fourth episode is about a woman who is about having a hard time with finding a good relationship. But, after she encounters a very sexy and dangerous dancer bearing a very strange tatoo. The woman becomes obessed with persuing her, no matter how much it will hurt her.



This is proably one of the best out of the whole "Hunger" series."