Near Dark
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Actor: Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Jenny Wright, Lance HenriksenBrand: STARZ/SPHE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Near Dark
Movie Review: Inmortal and violent at night, burning dust at day. Controversial twist of the vampire genre
Summary: 5 Stars
Existentialist in an original different twist of the vampire genre, Kathryn Bigelow's "Near Dark" is one of the moxt exciting and controversial achievements in horror cinema, a tour de force in action and suspense, a new style for the night creature aesthetics with a ground-breaking, poetical and human portrayal of the struggle of the undead.
The story is a renovated statement : The main character-victim Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) is infected by cute and innocent drifter Mae (jenny Wright), descents to the lowest levels of indignity and basic desires, desperatly fights the moral battle over the lost humanity, and finally rises from hell to protect his loved ones against his adoptive new "gang": Portrayed as dusty outlaws and renegades criminals reunited as a dysfunctional family drifting the southern deserts in a van , the badass evil creatures can't actually be more human, not only in looks but in the most darkest and contradictory side of sociopathy. They hide from the painful burning damage of sunlight during the day with desperate ingenuity , and prey for human blood at night using both clever and brutal methods depending on each character. They despise society and only care for each other, as it shows in the disturbing and bloody "Pub" massacre.
So why such a deep, conflictive, disturbing and outstanding piece of work, a nightmarish soulless story of hellish mayhem didn't succed with audiences like its inferior nemesis and paralel 1987 release, Joel Schumacher's "Lost Boys"? The answer seems obvious: The almost total lack of vampire imagery on "Near Dark", with a new non-gothic asthetic that emphasizes in the devastating symptoms of the disease instead of abusing the usual graphic standard of wings and fangs. "Lost Boys" vampires are way cooler, haunting from the air with their incredibly creepy Salem's Lot morphing faces with colorful and atractive biker teenage style. That graphic impact trascended more on collective imagery than the more mutant humans running scared of the incinerating sun. Ask Buffy or Blade. The publicity, cast, and soundtrack did the trick too. Regardless, Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton are creepier superior night creatures in other most shocking aspects, and the Tangerine Dream haunting score prevails over other FM hits.
This most shocking and provoking ultra-violent vision of K. Bigelow is way more stronger, but somehow less efective for the average fan. The diversity of character-creatures using weapons and dressing like western outlaws, vicious and evil but constantly and desperatly struggling against time and sunlight, along with "food" issues, was the greatest but at the same time most dissapointing theme. The dramatic quest for safety during day is the more original, astonishing and graphic factor, but the expected imagery is unavoidable. Besides that point, this movie prevails as a monumental force in the vampire genre, in wich darkness and blood are the agonizing fountain of a condemned life.
In this movie, the price to pay for inmortality is way too overwhelming and cruel, transforming the human soul in an indifferent, alienated, and needy killing machine that has no alternative but to become in a self-aware monster, in order to bear and endure the terrible curse of vampirism throught every excrutiating and "deadly" day. Night is coming, beware of this shocking, raw and sadistic nightmare, the finest epic portrayal of moral struggle and redemption, fear of the light and torture, a claustrophobic chapter in history of vampire cinema.
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