Near Dark
1987

Near Dark

★ 6.9 / 10
IMDb
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
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Synopsis

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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Why Eltorama recommends this film

Bigelow's neo-Western vampire road movie. Tangerine Dream scored every truck stop, every dawn, every bar-fight massacre as if cinema had finally figured out what to do with a sequencer. One of the great electronic film scores of any decade.