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Near Dark is a 1987 American neo-Western horror film co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (in her solo directorial debut), and starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein.
Jan 8, 1988 · Near Dark: Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton. A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.
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- Kathryn Bigelow
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Feb 19, 2024 · Through Bigelow and co-writer Eric Red’s singular conception of the vampires as undead Southern Gothic punks, Near Dark both humanizes the monstrous by making the vampiric plight more...
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- Kathryn Bigelow
Near Dark. Cowboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) meets gorgeous Mae (Jenny Wright) at a bar, and the two have an immediate attraction. But when Mae turns out to be a vampire and bites Caleb on...
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- Adrian Pasdar
- The realization that they were going to film a real mosquito interacting with an actor meant they had to grow it from scratch “so that there were no contaminants that he would be exposed to.”
- The opening landscape was filmed outside Phoenix in a small town named Coolidge. “The landscape was both bleak and phenomenally dramatic.” The paradox amazed her.
- She and co-writer Eric Red (The Hitcher, Bad Moon) wanted to write a Western, but they “realized we needed to graft it onto a more salable element at that time.”
- It’s meant to be summer in the opening scenes, but it was shot during the winter time. Poor Jenny Wright in her sleeveless shirt was quite cold.
Oct 2, 2017 · Thirty years ago this week, Kathryn Bigelow’s film Near Dark prowled its way into theaters. Bigelow’s first solo directorial outing was a poetically violent horror film about a young...
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Near Dark is a 1987 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow that blends elements of horror and the Western genre. The story follows a young man who becomes entangled with a group of nomadic vampires. As he grapples with his newfound condition, the film explores themes of loyalty, survival, and identity. Starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, and Lance Henriksen, Near Dark is noted for its atmospheric ...
