Near Dark

Near Dark
by Kathryn Bigelow

Near Dark
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Actor: Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, 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: Hugely Overrated.
Summary: 2 Stars

I am at a loss for words regarding all the 4 and 5 star reviews for this movie. I had never heard of this vampire flick from 1987, the same year as the vastly superior "The Lost Boys", until a few years back when I noticed several reviews referring to "Near Dark" and many regarding this a better movie. My question for them is "What were you watching?" This isn't the worst movie I've ever seen but it is a long, long ways from being the best vampire movie ever as some reviewers have stated. It's just not that interesting. I never felt any connection or even liked any of the characters in this movie. And Bill Paxton, one of my least favorite actors by the way, is so annoying in this movie that it was infuriating. There are so many plot holes and dumb mistakes made by the vampires in this movie. The final couple of scenes in this movie are so ridiculous that I was shaking my head. In short this movie just does not have the style and well developed characters of "The Lost Boys" and how anyone can say this movie is better is beyond me.

Summary of Near Dark

Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 08/24/2004
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. --Jeff Shannon

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