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# Movie Review: Near Dark (1987)
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/movie-review-near-dark-1987/
- Published: 2020-11-16T22:12:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:55:27.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

Finally saw this classic dark [vampire](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/horror/vampires/) film. It’s really a vampire western. There’s even a tumbleweed.

[Review from Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/claradox/film/near-dark/) (with minor spoilers):

Young Bill Paxton hurts my heart in the best way.  
Lance Henriksen is beautiful and fascinating.

That backlit silhouette scene (you can see it in [the highlight on Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/claradox/film/near-dark/)) and the following bar scene are worth the price of admission.

The CGI flames on Homer didn’t age well, but I will forgive. How else can you light up a child?

I love that the word “vampire” is never spoken, nor alluded to, in the entire movie (“bloodsucker”, “creature of the night”, “Dracula “, etc.)

Eric Red, who co-wrote with Kathryn Bigelow, is problematic in the worst way. I wrote about it when I was creating The Dollop Podcast’s website for it, and kept the article, as I did all of them, here. The link to the podcast episode is not there, because they left Libsyn without proper redirects, but my links in my article explain it all:  
[Eric the Red](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-57-smollop/)

I want to read[ this book analyzing it](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781911239277) by Stacey Abbott and published by the British Film Institute.

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