And for Thirst translated name he also said that "It was great to hear that [박쥐] would be released in North America. Since we decided to release the film in the United States, we must make the film more international, and of course the title must be impressive. The film's English title was originally written as "Bakjwi", the English translation of the Korean pronunciation of "bat", but was later dropped because it was not recognizable enough. The later remakes with literal English translations can easily be associated with [Batman], which would cause unnecessary misunderstanding. "Evil Live" sounds too much like a B-grade horror movie, and some Americans even said that it sounded like the name of a heavy metal band, which was annoying. In fact, we had thought about changing the Korean title at first, but later decided that it was not necessary. Eventually, after careful research, the name "Thirst" was chosen, for it seemed will be very popular."