Near Dark (aka Too Straight to Vampire) with Erica Henderson
Special guest Erica Henderson joins Jeremy, Ben, and Emily to discuss 1987 neo-Western Near Dark - a movie about bloodthirsty vampires, taped Winnebagos, and one exceptional rattail.
Scare Level: Scary
Trigger Warnings: Trauma, Gore, PTSD, body horror, and gaslighting
This neo-Western from Kathryn Bigelow is, ostensibly, about a cowboy who gets bitten by vampire-drifters and spends the rest of the movie failing to vampire correctly.
Trigger Warnings: Trauma, Gore, PTSD, body horror, and gaslighting
This neo-Western from Kathryn Bigelow is, ostensibly, about a cowboy who gets bitten by vampire-drifters and spends the rest of the movie failing to vampire correctly.
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow
- Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Reed
- Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jeanette Goldstein, and Jenny Wright
- IMDB says: "A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter."
Recommendations:
- Erica- The Stuff
- Emily- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
- Ben - They Live
- Jeremy - The Final Girls
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Listen to Erica on the Friends Till the End podcast
Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod
Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth
Emily's Website: Megamoth.net
Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn
Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule.
Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com
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