Near Dark - Remember this little horror classic

Well, When someone asked about Bill Paxton 80th horror film, in the other thread, they reminded me about this little horror gem.

Near Dark, is a story of the farm kid, who meet the stange girl and fall in love with her to be bitten by her and dissapear. The Kid goes after her, and find the real truth that she is a part of nomadic vampire family that travel the country roads in search of fresh blood.

It was directed by former James Cameron's wife, Kathryn Bigelow and presented a very good cast:

Adrian Pasdar .... Caleb Colton
Jenny Wright .... Mae
Lance Henriksen .... Jesse
Bill Paxton .... Severen
Jenette Goldstein .... Diamondback
Tim Thomerson .... Loy Colton
Joshua John Miller .... Homer

Aliens veterans Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton and Jenette Goldstein play members of the vampire family, and Henriksen(who is one of my most favorite actors :)) and Paxton deliver great performances. Henriksen is especially cool as the head of this family. I love the scene where he gets shot, and then spits out the bullet :)

It was very stylish, violent and had great music by Tangerine Dream.

A real gem of a film which deserved a lot more credit than it ever received

Here is the trailer for the film:

http://us.imdb.com/Trailers?0093605&618&28

Near Dark was a masterpiece of mood. It's a shame Kathryn Bigelow didn't make many films, because she does a great job.

Yes! I saw this movie once on VHS. I remember liking it, but damn if I remember anything about it now.

The fact that 3 of the Aliens cast were in this movie made me rent it, as they had such good chemistry in Aliens.

I learned about this flick from a film class. I had a paper assigned to me that asked my to address the film in terms of genre-bending (in this case, the western and the horror film.) I found me a used copy at a comic book shop and snagged it. After all, if you've ever taken a film class w/ 200 people, ever copy will be rented out from every video store in a 50 mile radius before you can get it. Needless to say, I was impressed. This was an interesting turn on horror films and a quite enjoyable flick. Furthermore, Lance Heinriksen is (as always) the MAN! Hopefully this will turn up on DVD some day....Along side Wild at Heart and new issues of They Live, Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner.

Cool to see another Lance Henriksen fan :) The guy is great, even in most crpappiest films he ever took a part in :)

Near Dark comes to dvd this fall, and I think there will be a special edition dvd released as well. Sometime in September, or October, from what I can remember.