Fresh
Long after the picture ends, you're left with potent half-images: strong-but-vague impressions that resemble the remains of dreams.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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Near Dark
Overview
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Director and cast
- Kathryn Bigelow Director
- Adrian Pasdar as Caleb Colton
- Jenny Wright as Mae
- Lance Henriksen as Jesse Hooker
- Bill Paxton as Severen
- Jenette Goldstein as Diamondback
- Tim Thomerson as Loy Colton
- Joshua John Miller as Homer
- Marcie Leeds as Sarah Colton
- Kenny Call as Deputy Sheriff
- Edward Corbett as Ticket Seller
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There's a ghastly humor in all this, and Bigelow brings it out without overindulging it. Faced with a nearly repulsive subject, she makes the blood flow inside it, stream out over the cuts.
Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Near 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.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
High-powered but pared down, slick but spare, this is a tale that introduces the unearthly into the banality of rural American existence.
Variety Staff, Variety
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