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The Best Episodes of The Hunger

Genre:Drama
Network:Showtime

Every episode of The Hunger ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Hunger!

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...
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  • Sin Seer
    7.1/10(84)
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    #1 - Sin Seer

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 11/7/1999

    Mano is a young man who has a unique gift - he can look into people's eyes and see their darkest secrets. For years, he has avoided eye contact with people but, for even longer, he has avoided mirrors...but what should happen if he looked into one.

    Director: Podz

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Secret Shih-Tan
    6.9/10(147)
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    #2 - The Secret Shih-Tan

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 7/27/1997

    A gourmet chef is paid an enormous amount of money to prepare a meal from a secret book called Shi-Than.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: David Preston

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  • Nunc Dimittis
    6.9/10(84)
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    #3 - Nunc Dimittis

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 10/10/1999

    The loyal servant of an elderly princess reveals to his mistress that he is dying and may only have a number of days left so she makes one final request - that he find his own replacement amongst the drifters in the city.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: N/A

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  • Clarimonde
    6.7/10(94)
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    #4 - Clarimonde

    Season 1 Episode 21

    Aired 3/20/1998

    A strange beautiful woman seems to get a thrill from seducing men about to become priests.

    Director: Tom Dey

    Writer: Gerald Wexler

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  • Brass
    6.7/10(77)
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    #5 - Brass

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 11/21/1999

    When a young man inherits an ornate mirror following the death of his Satanist father, he finds that it reveals his father's attempted use of black arts. As the dead man's son continues his father's work, he puts the lives of those around him in danger, particularly when he forges a link to Hell through the power of the mirror.

    Director: Jeff Fazio

    Writer: N/A

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  • Week Woman
    6.6/10(83)
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    #6 - Week Woman

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 10/17/1999

    When an illegal immigrant is threatened with deportation and is offered a marriage of convenience by his partner's lesbian friend, he accepts. Soon, though, he finds that her personality changes week-by-week, from housewife to dominatrix...to killer?

    Director: Podz

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sanctuary
    6.5/10(126)
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    #7 - Sanctuary

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/10/1999

    When a young drifter (Giovanni Ribisi) arrives at a disused prison seeking help having been shot earlier that day, he sees that it is owned by a famously disturbed artist, Julian Priest (David Bowie), who has one final masterpiece on his mind.

    Director: Tony Scott

    Writer: Bruce M. Smith

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  • The Diarist
    6.5/10(76)
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    #8 - The Diarist

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 10/31/1999

    Merriam is a witch whose heart was recently broken and she uses her magic for vengeance. Laurissa, though, is also a witch and sets about learning white magic with which to protect Merriam's ex-lover, leading to a battle for his life between the two witches.

    Director: Alain Desrochers

    Writer: Gemma Files

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  • Wrath of God
    6.5/10(69)
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    #9 - Wrath of God

    Season 2 Episode 14

    Aired 1/9/2000

    An apartment block is the focus of a series of murders mostly of gay men and this attracts the attentions of a man (Anthony Michael Hall) who claims to be a student of all things evil. But when he visits the landlord of the building, are acts of evil really on his mind.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: Bruce M. Smith

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  • Necros
    6.4/10(154)
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    #10 - Necros

    Season 1 Episode 3

    Aired 7/20/1997

    A man named Philip Casnoff falls for a beautiful woman. Her old companion, however, may be a vampire.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: Steven Salzburg, Audrey Salzburg

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  • Room 17
    6.4/10(124)
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    #11 - Room 17

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 8/10/1997

    A man rents a room in order to watch a special set of erotic movies.

    Director: Erik Canuel

    Writer: Craig Miller, Mark W. Nelson

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  • The Sloan Men
    6.4/10(104)
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    #12 - The Sloan Men

    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 9/28/1997

    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.

    Director: Darrell Wasyk

    Writer: Bruce M. Smith

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  • The Swords
    6.3/10(242)
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    #13 - The Swords

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 7/20/1997

    A man gets into a relationship with a woman who can survive being peirced by swords.

    Director: Tony Scott

    Writer: Howard A. Rodman

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  • Bridal Suite
    6.3/10(121)
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    #14 - Bridal Suite

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 8/3/1997

    A couple on their honeymoon discover a horrible truth about a bed that is said to have been cursed for all adulterous lovers

    Director: Erik Canuel

    Writer: Clair Noto

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  • I'm Very Dangerous Tonight
    6.3/10(63)
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    #15 - I'm Very Dangerous Tonight

    Season 2 Episode 13

    Aired 1/2/2000

    The stunning red dress from Season One - I'm Dangerous Tonight - is back for this episode, in which Henry buys his wife, Sarah, the dress only for her to prove irresistible to others, including Henry's father.

    Director: Alain Desrochers

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

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  • The Sacred Fire
    6.3/10(64)
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    #16 - The Sacred Fire

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 1/30/2000

    Luann is a kind and generous woman who volunteers to help the homeless find food and shelter but when she meets Nick, who lives on the street, he warns her that there are street people who are aliens in disguise, intent on killing humans.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: Gerald Wexler

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  • The Seductress
    6.3/10(67)
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    #17 - The Seductress

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 2/13/2000

    When a novelist reads a suicide note from a former lover, she begins an affair with a mysterious man, but their romance is not all it seems and the boundaries between reality and fiction appear to fall away.

    Director: Alain Desrochers

    Writer: N/A

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  • Falling Man
    6.3/10(63)
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    #18 - Falling Man

    Season 2 Episode 21

    Aired 2/27/2000

    An architect meets a beautiful woman who encourages him to take risks with his designs and the building that he creates becomes the most successful of his career. But how far will this woman go to ensure the design stays unique.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Suction Method
    6.3/10(66)
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    #19 - The Suction Method

    Season 2 Episode 22

    Aired 3/5/2000

    Carpet cleaning may not have been the most terrifying of events before now but when middle-aged Max celebrates after having his wife leave town on business, she books Redemptive Cleaners to come in her absence, who have an most unique method of dealing with errant husbands.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • And She Laughed
    6.2/10(81)
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    #20 - And She Laughed

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 10/3/1999

    In this homage to Repulsion, Jane (Jennifer Beals) thinks that she's having trouble with a Peeping Tom and that the police could help but when she sees a pair of eyes staring at her through the letterbox and begins having nightmares, her mental health crumbles.

    Director: Jean Beauchemin

    Writer: N/A

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  • I'm Dangerous Tonight
    6.1/10(97)
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    #21 - I'm Dangerous Tonight

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 9/21/1997

    A red dress by a famous fashion designer causes strange behavior in the people who wear it.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: Gerald Wexler

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  • Menage a Trois
    6.0/10(229)
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    #22 - Menage a Trois

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 7/20/1997

    A wheelchair bound woman uses her nurse in a plan to seduce a young workman.

    Director: Jake Scott

    Writer: Jordan Katz

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  • Skin Deep
    6.0/10(96)
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    #23 - Skin Deep

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 9/10/1999

    A young woman seeking a female partner meets Roxanna, an erotic dancer, at a nightclub and they begin an affair. This leads to new experiences of pleasure and pain as well as flirting with death. But when will the flirtation turn serious

    Director: Luke Scott

    Writer: N/A

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  • Dream Sentinel
    6.0/10(90)
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    #24 - Dream Sentinel

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 9/10/1999

    Based on The Sixth Sentinel by Poppy Z Brite, this is the story of a lap dancer wishes for nothing more than to forget her troubled past but the ghost of a killer haunts her and, oddly, wishes to protect her. What, however, will he want in return.

    Director: Chris Hartwill

    Writer: N/A

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  • Replacements
    6.0/10(62)
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    #25 - Replacements

    Season 2 Episode 12

    Aired 11/28/1999

    A doctor becomes determined to find out what is happening to the women in his town, after they appear to be turning against the men and becoming obsessed with something unknown.

    Director: Bruce M. Smith

    Writer: N/A

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Best Episodes Summary

"Sin Seer" is the best rated episode of "The Hunger". It scored 7.1/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by Podz and written by N/A, it aired on 11/7/1999. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Secret Shih-Tan".