Near Dark
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| Director: |
Kathryn Bigelow |
| Studio: |
Anchor Bay Entertainment |
| Release Date: |
October 2, 1987 |
| Rating: |
R |
| Running Time: |
94 minutes |
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When country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) meets the pretty and enigmatic Mae (Jenny Wright) he immediately falls for her angelic charms. Equally enamoured, Mae agrees to go for a ride in Caleb's truck where, despite Mae's apparent apprehension and urgency to get back home before sunrise, the pair make out. During their romantic interlude, Mae gives Caleb a nip on the neck before mysteriously disappearing into the night.
Alone and slightly confused, by the time dawn breaks, Caleb is suffering from severe stomach cramps and a serious aversion to sunlight. While struggling to make his way back to his father's farm, he is abducted by a group of strangers in a motorhome. The kidnappers turn out to be Mae's "family", a band of vampires who intend to feast on Caleb before he turns into one of them...
The word "vampire" is never mentioned in Near Dark, but that doesn't stop this 1987 cult favorite from being one of the best modern-era vampire films. It put then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow on Hollywood's radar and gave choice roles to Aliens costars favored by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron: Lance Henriksen is the leader of a makeshift family of renegade bloodsuckers, nocturnally seeking victims in rural Oklahoma; his immortal gal pal is Aliens and Terminator 2 alumnus Jenette Goldstein; and Bill Paxton is the group's deadliest leather-clad ass kicker. Fellow traveler Jenny Wright lures Okie farm boy Adrian Pasdar into the group with a love bite, and he's soon turning toward vampirism with a combination of frightened revulsion and relentless desire. With Joshua Miller (River's Edge) as the youngest vampire, Near Dark is Bigelow's masterpiece of low-budget ingenuity--a truck-stop thriller that begins well, gets better and better (aided by a fine Tangerine Dream score), and goes out in a blaze of glory.
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| Date Added: |
October 11, 2004 |
| Added By: |
Cancer |
| Times Viewed: |
6,743 |
| Times Rated: | 871 |
| Rating: | 9.257 |
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