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Near Dark
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131212198
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
MPN: D12121D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: October 02, 1987
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Editorial Review:
The word "vampire" is never mentioned in Near Dark, but that doesn't stop this 1987 cult favorite from being one of the best modern-era vampire films. It put then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow on Hollywood's radar and gave choice roles to Aliens costars favored by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron: Lance Henriksen is the leader of a makeshift family of renegade bloodsuckers, nocturnally seeking victims in rural Oklahoma; his immortal gal pal is Aliens and Terminator 2 alumnus Jenette Goldstein; and Bill Paxton is the group's deadliest leather-clad ass kicker. Fellow traveler Jenny Wright lures Okie farm boy Adrian Pasdar into the group with a love bite, and he's soon turning toward vampirism with a combination of frightened revulsion and relentless desire. With Joshua Miller (River's Edge) as the youngest vampire, Near Dark is Bigelow's masterpiece of low-budget ingenuity--a truck-stop thriller that begins well, gets better and better (aided by a fine Tangerine Dream score), and goes out in a blaze of glory. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Boy, what a dissapointment!
I liked Lost boys and I am a big fan of vampire stuff, books and movies. I really was looking forward to this but what a dissapointment. I fail to see why anybody would like this movie!? Somebody called this a horror movie... there is absolutely no horror what so ever.
Rating:  - Didn't receive the correct Disk 2
I'll let others review the movie itself. Disc 2 was not the listed Bonus Features at all: I received a pilot episode for a TV show titled "Profit."
The only thing this show has in common with "Near Dark" is the lead actor, Pasdar.
This is a first for me: a completely different disc substituted within a DVD package. I'd replace it if I could be sure I would get the intended Bonus Features disk, but Amazon wouldn't want to open a DVD to check before mailing it to me, and ... Read More
Rating:  - Inmortal and violent at night, burning dust at day. Controversial twist of the vampire genre
Existentialist in an original different twist of the vampire genre, Kathryn Bigelow's "Near Dark" is one of the moxt exciting and controversial achievements in horror cinema, a tour de force in action and suspense, a new style for the night creature aesthetics with a ground-breaking, poetical and human portrayal of the struggle of the undead.
The story is a renovated statement : The main character-victim Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) is infected by cute and innocent drifter Mae (jenny Wright), ... Read More
Rating: - Redemption
If you like Vampire movies, you will certainly love this one. No Crosses or silver bullets. A good love story with strong sexual desire.
The characters are very strong and completlely believable. Has a unique
plot twist and development in the end. Overall a good movie experience.
Barker D. Chunn, Jr.
Rating: - Not as good as everyone keeps saying
A lot of reviews say this is a really good movie. I liked it alright, but it wasn't what I hoped. I like vampire stuff - whether movies or books - and this one took a little different turn on it. I liked that they showed some imagination, but it still isn't my favorite. I liked seeing a young Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli on Heroes), but I hated the vampire girl that he fell in love with. She was absolutely horrible. Other than that, not a bad movie, just not fantastic.
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