DVD : Near Dark
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131235692
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2004
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 16872
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: October 02, 1987
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 08/24/2004
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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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never in my life have i watched a movie with so many positive reviews, only to discover the movie was absolutely horrible. this movie was embarrasingly stupid and meaningless, with an idiotic plot, horrible acting, dreadful direction, and did i mention the idiotic plot? its a violent, nonsensical mishmash of genres, without a single positive characteristic. even the soundtrack is bad.
the movie gives us nothing to work with. caleb, the main character, is a complete moron from the first scene, and his vampire girlfriend mae is hopeless in a poorly-written role. the group of vampire criminals commit idiotic violent acts and manage to outwit the police for years, but one dumb country boy can bring the entire gang down? a blood tranfusion can cure vampirism? caleb and his father, among all the thousands of motels strung across the midwest, manage to get rooms at the exact same one? and best of all, when the sun comes up, it comes up in every direction?
i watched most of this movie in fast-forward because the dialogue and acting were so terrible, so forgive me if i get some minor details wrong. but there are so many problems with timing and transitions between scenes that the movie is just impossible to watch. One minute, its dark outside, and five minutes later its the middle of the day. caleb, carrying his sister no less, manages to run miles and miles with the vampires driving after him? after the shootout at the motel, the police just let them ... Read More
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Whatever happened to Katherine Bigelow? This is one of the best of her few films. Sometimes a bit over the top and it skims over some details (transfusions without the benefit of blood types?) but, it is a vampire movie, after all. Very stylish, gruesome at a times in it's violence and a fine score by Tangerine Dream!
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NEAR DARK
Do you remember when this classic was in theaters when it first came out, I bet most of you really do not. If you do remember you are one of the very few who do because this was in theaters around the same time as the mega popular "The Lost Boys". This like that film is all about a young man who is brought into something he didn't really want, and like that film has to protect his family from the family of vampires that are after them. This how ever though is more of a serious film were as the other was more of a over the top/fun type film. Don't get me wrong I love both of these films and consider both of them classics.
The story is all about a young man who is out drinking one night and comes across a young lady who just happens to be a vampire. I guess it is love at first sight because she does not kill him but turns him and convinces her family to take him in. Of course he has to prove him self and the film is all about that scenario, and time after time he tries but his human side keeps him from doing so. Of course there is a lot more to it then that and a lot of really negative stuff happens between him and them and things get great then. This film really doesn't feel like a vampire movie at all but more like a really good dramatic film that just happens to star a family of vampires. I think that the fact this film didn't do well really killed off this type of film from being made again which is a shame. This film did not really play to the ... Read More
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Near Dark is the ORIGINAL vampire movie -- lots of action, gore, and blood. Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton out do themselves.
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Near Dark is a very intersting horror movie in every sense of the word "interesting", and "horror". It's a vampire-western crossover film, combining the charm of Western movie characters with the violence and midnight adrenaline of vampire horror. Here's the skinny:
-Caleb, a likeable Southern guy falls for Mae, a newcomer to his town. While on a "date", a kiss turns to a bite that turns Caleb into a vampire. Now he's kidnapped by Mae's vampire clan, featuring the sinister leader, played by Lance Henriksen, alongside the hilarious, rough, vulgar-mouthed and pretty much all-around AWESOME Bill Paxton. And I'm not just worshipping his role because I share first names with him, Bill Paxton dominates in this movie.
-Now, one of the "interesting" facets of this movie is the twist. Horror movies are about what happens to people, and while the events in the plot of Near Dark are crucial, the character development is just as vital in this movie as in a comedy or drama movie. You step inside the world of the vampires, learn to love them, or hate them, your pick.
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VIOLENCE AND TERROR: Well, there's no shortage of action in this movie. Just look at the whopping eight and a half minute roadhouse scene to get what I mean. As far as vampire horror goes, there isn't any, real horror to speak of, it's more like an exploitation sorta thing going on as opposed to something chasing you in the desert.
LANGUAGE: Oh man, is this where Bill Paxton ... Read More
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