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Summary: An undiscovered gem
Review: Released at the same time as The Lost Boys; Near Dark was seemingly doomed to cult status obscurity. However, Anchor Bay decided to go all the way with the release of the film on DVD, and now has never been a better time to see this undiscovered gem of a film. When Oklahoma boy Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) falls for sweet Mae (Jenny Wright), he gets much more than he bargained for with just one kiss, and one bite. Soon enough he's in over his head with her and her crazed running buddies (including Lance Henriksen as the group's leader and Bill Paxton in one of his best roles as the group's deadliest member) who drink fresh blood and avoid the sun at all costs. I know what your thinking, but in Near Dark the "V" word is never mentioned; not once. In fact, most of the usual mythology that goes along with the vampire genre isn't featured here; instead the film is part horror, part western, and thanks to director Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, K-19: The Widowmaker), the film works. All in all, Near Dark is a true undiscovered gem of a film, and is definitely worth checking out.
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Summary: Cool vampires!
Review: This movie contains some of the crew in the Alien: resurrection
series and you can tell buy the members of the cast. Anyways if your into the whole vampire theme than this is a movie worth watching. It's about a guy who is looking for some tail and he get it only for it to bite him back! So he becomes a vampire and struggles with his new life. It's hard for him as he struggles and has to help him and his so called friends escape from the hands of anyone trying to kill them. This was a good watch for me and like I said before if your into the whole vampire/action genre than you should take a gander at it!
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Summary: A Very Pleasing Cult Film...What's With These Rumors Then?
Review: I had heard alot about "Near Dark" for quite sometime, but yet I couldn't find the VHS copy in town anywhere for rent. Then the DVD releases in late 2002, and I took a chance by buying it from Future Shop.For the movie, it deserves 4 & 1/2 stars, in my opinion!
And as for the DVD, the extras are very pleasing. But supossedly the movie is not presented in it's full uncut version, and it might be a matted/fake widescreen transfer. I'm very interested to know wheather or not these rumors are true, because basically, I'm stuck with this version ONLY. So, as there is no way in heck to find an old VHS copy to make comparison, could someone help me out by confirming these rumors? Please click "Yes" or "No" so as that I might one day be able to find out the truth. I'm only interested because I know that Anchor Bay has released some faulty DVDs in the past with either matted/fake widescreen ("The Evil Dead: Book Of The Dead", for instance), or cut versions (such as, "Manhunter"). Thanks!
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Summary: Sink your teeth into "NEAR DARK"
Review: This is an awesome action-filled film that any vampire fan could sink their teeth into...Great actors, beautiful outdoor cinematography, and a believable, albeit slightly different telling of vampire lore...Anchor Bay Entertainment delivers the goods once again with a real nice 2-disc package of this long overlooked gem...HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Sorry this review is brief, but I must go now...The sun is on the rise!!!!
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Summary: Not sucked in
Review: I heard a lot of positive things about this movie before I saw it. In fact, I heard someone talking about it the next day. However, I can't see what seperates it from any other vampire movie. I was enthralled after the first twenty minutes. I had never seen a vampire movie where a female vampire could suffer from very human emotions. And had the movie continued to explore those themes, within the context of Caleb's relationship to May, I would have given it 5 stars. Instead it becomes like every other movie about vampires-->the neophyte vampire having to make his first kill, and inevitably falling out with his creators: see Interview With the Vampire and The Lost Boys. Also, as far as edgy, hip, gritty vampire movies go, The Lost Boys was way more entertaining. Near Dark is the first "white trash" vampire movie, but the issues of class are really never explored. Is the next cult vampire movie going to be about down syndrome vampires, retirement age vampires?
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Summary: Cresting the Waves of Red
Review: In a small town "smack dab" in the middle of nowhere, what's there to do besides drink a little, drive around in your truck, keep odd hours while looking for love, and hang out with your friends while doing so? Well, when there's strangers in town, you can always try on a little vampirism for kick - provided they cooperate. Caleb Colton finds himself in just that position when he opts to give the beautiful out-of-towner Mae a ride home in the middle of the night, swooning her into hysterics and then, as the sun is about to rise, manages to get accidentally infected by the kiss of eternity. This automatically enrolls him in a surrogate family of four, where he finds out fairly quickly that becoming one of the clan means doing more than simply getting bitten. Much of this movie feeds off the madness within the "vampire" group's antics as they travel from place to place, barely hiding themselves before the sun blazes down and threatens to rob them of their lives. That's what I liked about it, too, because the combined talents of Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, and Joshua Miller made a dysfunctional little circle that was believably mad and unpredictably brutal. They aren't your run-of-the-mill group with the abilities to morph into animals, to fly, or to even think clearly most of the time, but what they lack in the realms of logic and gimmickry is made up for in strength, the ability to shed the inconveniences of bullets like so much water, and an utter lack of fear when confronted with most events that make mortals cringe. There are other portions mingled into it as well, such as the relationship that begins to form between Caleb and Mae as he struggles with this strange new life he's found himself thrust into, the need for a father and a sister to find the missing son/brother that they saw taken from beneath their very eyes, and the need for an elder beast trapped in a boy's body to have a companion, rounding it out as something with a little flavor for any of the movie-watching masses. Lovingly restored on DVD and having one deleted scene that an audience could certainly do without, this widescreen presentation brings many a flavorable scene back into prospectives that had missed out on them because of years of graininess and subpar transfers. So, because you know you need the press of victimology 101 in your living, you should dive into this tasty full meal extravaganza.
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Summary: Near fatal flaws.
Review: -SPOILERS-
I must have been one of the few people to have seen this movie in the theaters when it first came out- I read on IMDB that it only grossed 3 or 4 million dollars. I rented it because I remember my friend and I were laughing just uncontrollably at the end when Homer goes up in flames. I can see how this movie has a cult following, especially with Bill Paxton whooping it up and that indulgent, horrific bar scene (check out that waitress's hairdo!). But there are some serious flaws that prevent me from enjoying it more. The main one for me is how these vampires are supposed to have decades of experience with this kind of life and yet can't judge when the sun will rise or ever think to carry ski masks or gloves on such ocassions. But then we would need to rework the plot, right? I liked how convenient it was for them to run into Caleb's father and daughter, who happened to be staying in the same motel while they were trying to find Caleb all over the state. How did Caleb's father manage to donate enough of his blood to him in that transfusion scene? But the relationship between Caleb and Mae was interesting because both are innocent and well-intentioned. I liked the scenes when Caleb drank her blood from her wrists on his knees- very sensuous. The Tangerine Dream score seemed out of place for this Western vampire movie.
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Summary: Near Dark
Review: One of my favorite vampire cult movies! I rememeber when it was first out on cable, I must have watched it over 10 times!Not that its the scariest of movies, the plot was interesting with a cast of social misfits,,who happen to be vampires. How they survived, and even drove around in a van durning dawn covering almost all of the windows while they searched to find a garage to park so they would be away from the sun
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Summary: You have got to be joking
Review: I am a fan of horror and b-flicks and this "cult" favorite has nothing to offer other than a couple of ok scenes. A friend of mine recommended it and said it was one of the better vampire movies made. I disagree. Almost every vampire movie I have seen is better than this one. I don't care that it strayed from most "vampire" style movies...if it was executed well, i would have loved it. The characters just didnt do anything for me. The story was weak, the characters were weak, nothing pulled me into the story. I would never watch this movie again and I definitely wouldnt recommend buying this one.
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Summary: '80's classic returns!
Review: It's been a long time since "Near Dark" has been available on VHS, and this is it's long-overdue appearance on dvd. It's obviously a great movie; a cult film that has never been forgotten and one of the most critically acclaimed films of it's genre. The dvd has a lot of extras, and all add to your viewing pleasure and insight into what is far more than just a vampire flick. This is a must-have set not only for cult movie fans, but horror fans as well. I highly recommend "Near Dark" to all who enjoy offbeat, intelligent filmmaking.
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