korean cinema have the ability to turn genre on it head and and the late by the celebrated director chan wook park be a tale of a good pious priest who become a vampire . add a temptress lead him astray and a cast of eccentric and you have a wonderful recipe . direct in part in a style similar to the sympathy trilogy it as sumptuous a it be dark . steer clear of cliché it do offer some new trick in the overdone vampire genre . it an existential movie try to capture the moral conundrum of how exactly a person have to choose to live with their condition rather than revel in the blood lust . however and the film doesn not take itself too seriously and there be boundless humour throughout . our lead play their role to perfection and play with our emotion and revel in the dark humour . there be moment of reflection on the whole moral conundrum involve in the film but it never preachy . some might find it overlong and it can lull at point but it worth give it a chance to the end . if you like left field film then there be few good than this one of late . dark and engrossing and it will pull in a crowd . one i would recommend you give a try .