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Near Dark (1987)
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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...
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Mae (Jenny Wright): Caleb, what's happening?
Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar): I brought you home.
Mae: I'm afraid.
Caleb Colton: Don't be. It's just the sun.
Vampires in cowboy country? No, this is not some western, but a tale of drifters in the west that just happen to be children of the night.
Kathryn Bigelow directed...
(complete Near Dark review by B Movie Ben)
Caleb is just your average midwest town boy, who cares for his family, and likes to ride horses. But after an evening of hanging out with Mae, a shy young woman he meets while hanging out, he is indoctrinated against his will into Mae's "family", a dirty nomadic band of vampires. Caleb tries multiple times to escape the...
(complete Near Dark review by Ryan Midnight)
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(8/25/2007)
