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.
  • 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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