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Near Dark (1987)

Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

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Near Dark (1987)

Boy these vampires sure make life difficult for themselves. They routinely seemed shocked by the arrival of sunrise, desperately trying to outrun its rays day after day.

Bill Paxton steals the show with a mega performance, the kind of performance that Nicolas Cage would later refine to an art.

Aside from that, it’s hard to say much about this movie. The story is so slight and main characters so thin that it doesn’t leave much of an impression. It was occasionally well shot - the motel shootout and the sensual biting scenes stand out in my memory. Aside from that, it just was.


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