1. Near Dark | Rotten Tomatoes
Near Dark is at once a creepy vampire film, a thrilling western, and a poignant family tale, with humor and scares in abundance. Read Critics Reviews.
Cowboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) meets gorgeous Mae (Jenny Wright) at a bar, and the two have an immediate attraction. But when Mae turns out to be a vampire and bites Caleb on the neck, their relationship gets complicated. Wracked with a craving for human blood, Caleb is forced to leave his family and ride with Mae and her gang of vampires, including the evil Severen. Along the way Caleb must decide between his new love of Mae and the love of his family.
2. Near Dark - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes
The film is a gritty horror-meets-western...there's also an earnestness about the story and performances that makes it special. Full Review ...
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3. Near Dark - Film Critic: Adrian Martin
Near Dark looks a bit different to me now than how it did in the late '80s. What has been most touted about it for decades – its 'genre hybridity' (among the ...
There are some directors whose œuvre can be speculatively encapsulated in a single image-and-sound configuration. I don’t mean a literal screenshot, but an image more in the Jungian sense: a dynamic, variable constellation or configuration of elements. For Claire Denis, for example, a cinephile’s mind conjures a gestalt of vehicles (of all sorts) in motion – and bodies in vehicles, bodies becoming vehicles, vehicles becoming bodies. Racing, crashing, duelling, escaping, cruising …
4. Looking at Kathryn Bigelow's vampire Western Near Dark 30 years later.
2 okt 2017 · Near Dark is a genre film of surprising nuance, full of well-drawn characters and moral complexity that catches you unaware with insights on its cultural ...
Thirty years ago this week, Kathryn Bigelow’s film Near Dark prowled its way into theaters. Bigelow’s first solo directorial outing was a poetically...
5. Near Dark (1987) directed by Kathryn Bigelow • Reviews, film + cast
Bigelow (and co-screenwriter Eric Red) does such a great job of turning euro-romanticism into americana, it remains deeply moving even if it is a nasty horror- ...
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
6. Near Dark Review | Movie - Empire
1 jan 2000 · At a meagre running time of 84 minutes, it's incredibly clean, with Bigelow standing firmly by the screenwriting mantra that "nothing is ...
Read the Empire Movie review of Near Dark. You can cite your Scream's as much as you like. The fact is that the resurgence of horror began a...
7. Near Dark critic reviews - Metacritic
A smart, creepy, violent, funny, and modern vampire movie that benefits from some wonderful performances, a stunning visual texture, and music by Tangerine ...
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8. 'Near Dark' Is the Acid-Soaked Vampire Western You Need to See
While more could be said about the synth-driven soundscape created by the legendary electronic band Tangerine Dream as well as the hope-tinged climax and ...
Much like the film's monsters, Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 vampire classic seems to be hiding in plain sight.
9. Near Dark (1987) critic reviews on MUBI
NEAR DARK ... Near Dark is a genre film of surprising nuance, full of well-drawn characters and moral complexity that catches you unaware with insights on its ...
Critic reviews for the film: 'Near Dark (1987)'
10. Near Dark | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA
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