Near Dark [DVD]

Good transfer and amazing extras. This is really a must-see for vampire or 80's horror fans. This a beautiful and almost genre-bending movie. I do have an issue with the cover art being changed to capitalize on the Twilight aesthetic. This movie should not even be in the same conversation.

The unknown and under-appreciated "Near Dark" is one of the best vampire flicks of the last 40 years. Katherine Bigelow's sophomore effort demonstrated genre-bending excellence before she was known for The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.

I was a teenager of the 80's and this is my favorite cult classic. I can't get enough of the three actors from Aliens. Bill Paxton the wild one. Lance Henriksen the cool brains and Jenette Goldstein disappears completely immersed in her character of Diamond Back. Gotta say I enjoyed Joshua John Miller in this role. He really captured the idea that he was a demented adult trapped in a child's body, except for his attraction to little Sarah...then it was just weird again, but who cares.There is plenty of Adrian Pasdar to drool over in this breakout role. Jenny Wright is fresh as our leading lady. It's a nonconformist for it's genre, but it'll get you there. I enjoyed the bonus disc, but I would have liked to see more interviews. Wright and Miller didn't do interviews.Now I'm on a 80's binge of horror films. Thanks for the trippy trip down memory lane

in my humble opinion this is one of the finest vampire movies ever produced. yes,its very violent and gory-but why watch a vampire movie if it isn't. the acting is top notch,the script is great,all in all it's one of the finest vampire movies produced in the past twenty years or so. the whole idea of placing vampires in modern times and having them come on as cowboys and driving around in a rv was brillant as far as i'm concerned. the love interest between the hero and the girl is wonderfully played out. there is not real sex in this movie,which if not for all the violence and language whould probably rate this movie a pg13 or something.i'm sure the hero would have loved to get the girl into bed,unforunately for him the girl is a vampire and has other plans for him. there is humour laced throughtout this movie and if you listen carefully you'll pick up on it. it's really difficult to make any horror movie and try to play it straight all the way through.to have tried that with this movie with all the intensity and violence would not have worked i don't believe. it's a wonderful horror movie and i am please to see theyfinally released it on dvd. i guess voting for different movies via amazon to put on dvd does help. do yourself a favor and purchase this dvd.

This is an absolute must-have for fans of vampire cinema, all the more so if you are a child of the 80's.Co-written (with Eric Red) and directed by future Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow, this film centers on a country boy, Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) who meets a sweet, sexy blonde, Mae (Jenny Wright) and finds that he has, if you'll pardon me using this expression, bitten off more than he can chew when an innocent game of "I'll take you home if you'll kiss me" turns into something else altogether. Caleb finds himself "turned" and torn between his new craving and his aversion to killing (he relies on Mae to satisfy his new need, which does not sit well with the rest of her Wennebago-driving clan).Set in the desert, filmed almost entirely at night, the atmosphere is stunning and one of a kind. The performances by the leads (Bill Paxton, Lance Henrieksen, Jenette Goldstein and Joshua Miller as well) are second to none, particularly for what you normally expect in this genre. It is utterly unique, eschewing all the traditional vampire "rules" except for the fact that they only go out at night and can be killed by sunlight or fire. Also, the aforementioned v-word is never spoken in the actual movie.In closing, let me repeat once more: If you are a true vampire film fan, ADD. THIS. TO. YOUR. COLLECTION.Cheers.

I have seen many vampire movies. I've seen most of the great ones made between Nosferatu (1922)and 30 Days of Night (2007). I also love 80's horror movies, for me the 80's was the best decade for horror. So when i got word I had missed a great 80's vampire movie, i just had to track it down. My first attempt was via some amazon seller. Upon opening the mailing envolope my excitement turned to disappointment. I hadn't recieved Near Dark but Near Death (terrible if you have the choice of watching that or being tourtured for 24 hours strait pick option number two). So, Near Dark continude to elude me. I was going to buy from another seller but the 2 disks price had increased greatly, personally i prefer to have my dvds/ blurays in box sets, special editions, etc. However recently at my local Hastings i finally zoned in on the prize. Near Dark 2 disk from Anchor Bay sitting on the shelf wrapped in the green used wrapper, hallelujah. I came home and placed it in my blu-ray player immediately.The entire movie was great, it is to me one of the best movies of the 80's. The 2 disk is great their is a looking back feature, script, trailers, etc. A must own for any horror fan.

Not only is this one of the most underrated vampire films ever but also one of the best

Underrated Vampire Film That Came Out in 1987, the Same Year the Teen Heart Throb The Lost Boys Came Out. Near Dark is Grungy & Has A Western Outlaw Feel To It. If You Like Your Vampires As Bloody & Realistic as Possible, Unlike Those Twinks From Twilight, Near Dark is For You.

Katherine Bigelow's masterpiece has aged very well and could almost be set in today's world. The direction is faultless, Tangerine Dream's score is meaty, yet ethereal, Eric Red and Katherine Bigelow's script is superb. Jenny Wright is unforgettable as the feminine, seductive and dangerous predatory Mae. Lance Henrikson (Jesse) is complex, riveting and haunting as his vicious vampire clan's patriarch, all the actors are perfect in their roles, especially the late great legendary Bill Paxton 😎, who is unforgettable in one of his best ever screen roles as Severen. When we the audience and the movie's pure soul, Adrian Pasdar (Caleb), see Severen, Jesse and his vampire clan enter that bar and lay the unfortunate inhabitants to waste it's a movie scene has been often lovingly homaged in other movies, but rarely as memorably as shown here. This 2003 Studio Canal two DVD disc special edition has an amazing THX transfer that cleans away all the previous dirt and flecks present in the old 1987 VHS version so we can fully appreciate master cinematographer Adam Greenberg's sublime sunrise vistas and all compositions he lenses. The DTS track adds extra oomph! to the motel gunfight scene and physical sound effects. A beautiful movie😍.

Just a heads up for anyone looking at this one, ASIN B07DS3DJPD, the Studio Canal Blu-ray from France, the French subtitles are forced, as part of viewing in English, for both audio tracks (5.1 and 2.0). They are actually incorporated into the title of the film on the menu page, which should have been my first clue. The subtitles disappear when viewing with the 2.0 French language track. All attempts to remove the subtitles or block them on the disc, using both Blu-ray player overrides and computer overrides, have failed. As such, I can't recommend this release, unless you just can't find a copy on either Blu-ray or DVD to view. Given how incredibly distracting the bright white subtitles are on this unfortunate Blu-ray, I would say go with a DVD before this. Good luck.

Finally got to watch this 80s vampire film recently after years of wanting to watch it after seeing it on vhs in my local video shop way back in the early 90s aged about 16. It was worth the wait. Love Lance Henrickson as the lead vampire, and was good to see the late Bill Paxton (RIP Bill) in a very different role as the evil Severan. Adrian Pasdar, who I watched recently in the TV series Heroes as the president of USA was likable as the hero Caleb who falls for the beautiful and seductive Vampire Mae. Yeh would recommend this flm, hard to believe it's over 30 years old now, it's aged well

There's a reason why this film features in almost all lists of "best vampire movies". Which is because it deserves to. If you think being a vampire is about having power, lots of sex and money, a great wardrobe and having an all-round cool lifestyle for eternity you should probably see Near Dark. Being undead maybe isn't all it's cracked up to be.Why it's so hard to get hold of a copy I've no idea, it really is up there with the best of the genre.

A strange, sombre film, there's a reason why Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark has a cult following. It tells its linear story with strict fidelity, mixing horror, western and romantic tragedy to haunted effect. You may be surprised by how moving it is. It's not a typical 80s horror film - there's no real jump scares or busty teenagers - aiming instead for a more emotional tale which, like some of Wes Craven's best work, explores family dynamics, juxtaposing a savage, murderous unit against a traditional one.Adrian Pasdar plays Caleb Colton, a small town farmer's son. One night he meets Mae (Jenny Wright), a young woman who claims to come from a local trailer park. She's really a vampire, and in a moment of passion bites him. As he begins to lose his humanity Mae begs her "family", a gang of fellow vampires, to let him join them. The gang's led by Jesse Hooker (Lance Henrikson) and includes his wife Diamondback (Jenette Goldstein), psychopath Severen (Bill Paxton) and Homer (Joshua Miller), a child with an older soul. Meanwhile, Caleb's dad (Tim Thomerson) and sister (Marcie Leeds) go looking for him.What's interesting about Near Dark is that it needn't be about vampires, necessarily. It plays like a serial killer film along the lines of Badlands and Natural Born Killers, where disaffected psychos roam across a lonely world. Caleb's reluctance to kill for sustenance threatens his life while the family, except besotted Mae, tire of him. The gang, particularly its male members, are characterised as heartless sadists. Jesse's a Charles Manson-like figure and Severen's an obnoxious nutter, a role Paxton seemed to specialise in during this phase of his career (see also: Aliens and Predator 2). The most intriguing character is Homer, whose torment is that he's a boy with a man's needs. Diamondback serves as his mother, but what he desperately wants isn't a parent but a mate. The idea that while physically you don't age your personality does is one I hadn't seen before in vampire films. It's a Dorian Gray-ish conundrum. Diamondback isn't greatly distinguished, existing mostly, I think, to provide a matriarchal figure, but she still serves that purpose well.The acting's uniformly excellent, especially from Wright and Miller. Miller makes you believe he's a man inside as opposed to just a child talking tough, while Wright is a deeply sympathetic heroine. She's sad, lost and lonely, not quite sure of herself in a life she doesn't enjoy. Caleb's clearly her salvation. Their love story's touching in a way which recent supernatural romances don't understand. They're not wealthy, beautiful, priviliged mopers who scowl and whine; they're people adrift in a strange, barbaric world, bound together by chance.