Rating of
3.5/4
Near Dark
Drive-In Massacre - wrote on 12/15/11
This is another film that is just recently finding it's audience, and that's something to be happy about, because man, this a cool and very original film that has it's own unique play on the vampire idea.
The new contemporary, urban-western play on the vampire, makes it so much more realistic, and it's intense use of the weakness of daylight and no fangs, or coffins, or bats, or crucifixes, it's all really different and thorough.
I love how this is directed by Katherine Bigelow, a person who would be the only female, Best Director winner at the Oscars, and this is one of if not her best film.
She couldn't have found a better and more genuine cast for the travelling nomads that are the vampire. Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, (all players from Aliens) so well with each other and they really feel like a group of vampires who have done it all, and are used the lives they live for the last few decades)
Some of the scenes: the bar scene, the hotel scene, and the hitchhiking scenes are all some of the best moments in horror film history.
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