“Thirst” (** out of four) was an overly dry horror thriller about the spread of both insomnia and dehydration in a small town which leads to people stricken with panic and fear and various town citizens (Brian Cogley, Cynthia Gray, Amelia Glazner, and others) congregate and seek salvation on a ranch but chaos soon ensues. Too serious to be fun but yet too silly to take seriously; film incorporates elements of “Contagion” and “The Mist” but doesn’t work as either a horror thriller or as social commentary.