
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.... (Full plot summary below)
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A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenA smart, creepy, violent, funny, and modern vampire movie that benefits from some wonderful performances, a stunning visual texture, and music by Tangerine Dream. |
| Slant MagazineRob HumanickA romance, a western, and a totem to lost youth in an era ravaged by infection and addiction, it’s a high-water mark in a decade filled with exemplary genre fare. Borrowing from, and surpassing, the exceptional chemistry of Aliens’s tightly knit cast, the melancholic Near Dark is gorgeous even in its savagery, and one of pulp cinema’s greatest achievements. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawNear Dark remains Kathryn Bigelow's best film, suffused with style and anarchy that has an unerring feel for the irregular pulse of a very particular place and time. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricka perverse, penetrating vision of modern vampirism in which the word vampire is never mentioned |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergSouthern-fried vampire-noir romance action horror tragedy. I love this movie. |
| IGNRick SanchezIf you enjoy good horror or vampire flicks, Near Dark is one of the best. |
| TIME MagazineRichard CorlissNear Dark has filmmaking finesse to spare, but puts its dank characters on display rather than cadging sympathy for them. It is the Blue Velvet of date-night spook shows. |
| Seanax.comSean Axmaker... both ferocious and lyrical, a moody horror film with the frontier community romanticism of a John Ford Western and the violent ferocity of a Sam Peckinpah film. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxThere isn't a movie out there that feels quite like Near Dark; it seems to personify its subject matter even as it transcends it. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumOne regrets the pounding Muzak of Tangerine Dream, but this is on the whole a striking directorial debut, at once scary and erotic, with lots of sidelong touches in the casting, direction, and script . |