Wednesday, September 30, 2020

90-minute Walmart - "Near Dark": The Teenage Vampire Standard


A young man reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group. JP Bazinet

Is it weird to say that director Kathryn Bigelow is an innovator? She deserves the title being the first woman to with the Best Director Academy Award, but she was not the first nominee, and she is best known for her genre flicks "Near Dark" and "Point Break".

These genre films are what make her an innovator. Nothing brilliant has come from the extreme sport FBI genre (Sorry Vin Diesel), but when it comes to the vampire love story genre, "Near Dark" showed Hollywood how it should be done.

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