Lmao that's so funny because I always wanted to see his story in a prequel and who but him and what happened to the the vampire who bit him or perhaps it was Homer who in the movie seems to be called old man lol maybe
Really? I liked the idea that he was around in the debris that followed the Civil War? I would have liked to have seen a back story of the other characters. For eg Diamond back I always imagined was around in the great depression and met Jessie whilst down on her luck? Severen I have no idea!
I was 21 when this came out in ‘87. Saw this and ‘The Lost Boys’ the same year in small town Roswell, NM. I’m probably the only person on earth who thinks this is vastly superior. In my humble opinion, it’s not even close.
I loved "Near Dark" and it was in my top 300 favorite movies, but has fallen off the list. It is a great vampire movie for having a vampire who refuses to kill (concept of "Interview with the Vampire) and actually ends up with a method of reversing vampirism (in the Ann Rice series of books if you read enough of them) and ending with the man saving a girl from being a vampire to be a mortal love. I have no idea where it would fall now, but certainly in the top 300 to 350 movies of all the movies I've ever seen. "Let the Right One In" is the best vampire movie and "Interview with the Vampire" is the second best vampire movie. Dracula is #3 with Bela Lugosi, who captured my imagination as a child, and was what I always wanted to be for Halloween instead of a clown, and my favorite aunt Vera made me a vampire outfit that I then wore the rest of my childhood while "trick or treating." "Near Dark" would be under all these: 5) Let the Right One In (2008) - Swedish with English caption 27) Interview with the Vampire (1994) 73) Dracula (1931) 80) Nosferatu (1922) 240) Shadow of the Vampire (2000) 290) Hunger (1983) "Near Dark" would beat the Winona Ryder movie from 1992 called "Bram Stoker's Dracula," which would fall under it, but I do love Winona Ryder as an actress.
It absolutely is!! Studio films go through so many changes during filming that many times you only end up with a small percentage of the original script in the final cut. Like Paxton said, they squeezed every drop of story out of that script and onto the screen.
Definitely not the only one. I honestly struggle to place The Lost Boys in the same genre... it's not a bad film, but it left me with nothing like the lingering state of mind that Near Dark did.
The Lost Boys was a teen cultural phenomenon more than it was a movie. Near Dark is undoubtedly the superior piece of cinema. Oh, and both had great soundtracks, in radically different ways.
Fortunate to meet and share beer and nachos with Bill Paxton, at SXSW. He was as nice, funny and smart as he was multitalented. He sadly left us too soon.
Jennette Goldstein is SUCH an UNDERRATED ACTRESS!! "Lethal Weapon"(1&2), "Aliens", "Terminator 2", "Near Dark", "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas", "Star Trek: Generations".... One of the ORIGINAL "BadA$$" ladies of film!!!
We have always thought NEAR DARK was the greatest vampire movie we have ever seen and still have all my friends here in Costa Mesa California thank you so much for a great vampire movie we always love coming back to it thank you
@Daniel k, I disagree. "Lost Boys" would be under all the movies I list here. I loved "Near Dark" and it was in my top 300 favorite movies, but has fallen off the list. It is a great vampire movie for having a vampire who refuses to kill (concept of "Interview with the Vampire) and actually ends up with a method of reversing vampirism (in the Ann Rice series of books if you read enough of them) and ending with the man saving a girl from being a vampire to be a mortal love. I have no idea where it would fall now, but certainly in the top 300 to 350 movies of all the movies I've ever seen. "Let the Right One In" is the best vampire movie and "Interview with the Vampire" is the second best vampire movie. Dracula is #3 with Bela Lugosi, who captured my imagination as a child, and was what I always wanted to be for Halloween instead of a clown, and my favorite aunt Vera made me a vampire outfit that I then wore the rest of my childhood while "trick or treating." "Near Dark" would be under all these: 5) Let the Right One In (2008) - Swedish with English caption 27) Interview with the Vampire (1994) 73) Dracula (1931) 80) Nosferatu (1922) 240) Shadow of the Vampire (2000) 290) Hunger (1983) "Near Dark" would beat the Winona Ryder movie from 1992 called "Bram Stoker's Dracula," which would fall under it, but I do love Winona Ryder as an actress.
Ya this film was one in a million when I was just getting old enough to appreciate UNIQUE AND REAL filmmaking. Lance Henrikson and Bill Paxton were perfect for their characters. It's a shame we lost Paxton as not only and actor but as a writer and producer as well.. Anyway....movies like this are few and far between. Thumbs UP!!
When this movie came out I was the only person in my friend group who saw it; I always sought out these lesser known films because more often than not you're gonna see something that you simply don't get from the huge budget studio films. The cast and crew for this film made something that's truly a work of art!!
People constantly banging on in horror media about 'women in horror', yet nobody knows that this movie is possibly in the top 5 of vampire films ever. Bigelow and Eric Red were absolutely lethal as a team.
I'd be satisfied if I could find it for free on RU-vid or on a website. No payment or sign in needed. Just go to the website, press the play button and enjoy.
Near Dark and Fright Night were the two best 80's Vamp films. There were some other good ones but these stand out. Fright Night 2 was almost as good as the first.
It just seems like some of these actors really lived extraordinary lives. I can imagine how it must feel to be an actor doing films like Aliens and Near Dark. Must be very exciting!
Highly under appreciated film with another classic 80s Bill Paxton performance! It also heavily influenced the entire look and feel of Vampire the Masquerade which is itself under appreciated too! ❤
I watched it again the other day and I still love it. It was as good as Lost Boys. I loved the cast. This was a brilliant movie I miss Bill Paxton what an amazing actor.
Wow! Thanks for the upload. Seeing the love and obsession the cast and filmmakers had for this project is so incredibly vindicating - loved hearing all the backstories they came up with.
Thanks for the upload! Never forget the box on the shelf in my local video store back when I was like 9-10yrs old. Always felt it was an incredible shot.
To me this is grown up in contrast to Lost Boys... feel more like its for the teens whereas Near Dark is very sophisticated even for a film thats more gritty, Dark, intense, violent and graphic. Massive respect for Katheryn Bigelow... Massive!
Those damn Twilight movies/book have nothing to do with Near Dark. This movie never uses the word "Vampire" but we as the audience know what these characters are. Watching this in 2020, this mixes an original vampire lore ( when you think about it.. this was pre Twilight and Interview with and Vampire) with "Grapes of Wrath" and an homage of Western and the conception of a second family, Caleb can be analyzed as a thinker. He was this good boy who got into a situation and realized that he did not want this drama. The fact this was directed by a woman makes this extremely fascinating. Nothing sexual but social .
This is one of my favorite films. I didn’t love the ending, but everything else was so well executed and so much fun. It was great to hear those stories about the actors inhabiting the characters the way they did because it definitely came through and paid off bigtime.
This documentary is amazing! This movie is on shudder this month too. Also the director is beautiful and she seems to get better with age kinda like Gwen Stefani xD
Whoever Abraham Sanchez is.... He NAILED IT with this fkkking upload!! This is the second time I've watched it in my spare time, over the last month or so!... I'm a sucker for "cult" vampire movies!!😂👍
Wow...that part where Adrian says..."Jennie, if you're wayching this or listening, i miss ya. I dont know where she is". Dang, hope shes ok? Sad not to see Joshua Miller in here either
"Ennui" "Gravitas" "Accoutrements" - Kathryn Bigelow. "I was in my Lizard King, leather clad, Jim Morrison phase - Bill Paxton. "I picked up this hitchhiker & pushed him to the limit, he thought I was gonna chop him up" - Lance Henriksen. Man! I need to see this fucking movie again. it's been ages!!
One of my favorite Vampire flicks alongside Lost Boys, From Dusk Till Dawn and 30 Days of Night. I'm not gonna get into the Lost Boys vs Near Dark discussion as both are different kinds of beasts and both are fantastic for similar and different reasons. Servern is one of my favorite movie vampires.
The biggest gripe I had with this movie was how Caleb and Mae were cured of being Vampires by a simple transfusion, it just made no sense. I personally think that the best way they could have gone about it was, Jesse Hooker was the head of their Vampire bloodline and when he was killed, all Vampires in his bloodline were free of the curse. It might not have been a perfect ending, but it would have made WAY more sense than being cured by blood transfusions. Other than that, I love this movie.
(Lance Henriksen's character was called Jesse Hooker). Every vampire movie makes it's own rules. And it's supernatural! Can you EXPLAIN how being bitten can make you DEAD but ALIVE had the same time? It defies rational logical medical explanation. The idea that a body can be drained of the poisioned 'cursed' blood and replaced with healthy blood? Why not? I mean, why not? It's a convenient answer, I'll give you that - but I like the ending. The way Mae looks at her hand in that frozen shot. It almost suggests she's never gonna be okay. She's too far damaged. Too far gone.
@@freddybeer It MIGHT have made more sense if his Dad had stolen enough blood to flush Caleb's system. But that would be at least 12 pints of blood. Instead they had his Dad give him a transfusion from himself, which at best would have been 2 to 3 pints before he'd pass out. Same thing with Caleb giving Mae his blood, at best 3 pints. You need 12 pints to fill someone up to a normal blood volume. So it wasn't just a poor idea, it was also poorly executed on screen. The concept of someone being free of the Vampire curse by killing the head of the bloodline was done in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula as well as the Lost Boys. So, I didn't care for how they were cured in the end, for me, it just didn't work. Other than that, I love the movie and how the rest of the story was told.
@@irishinnj72 - So you didn't like that part of it because it didn't follow OTHER vampire movies? Poor excuse dude. I like movies that blaze their own path. Though I'll concede, yeah, more blood would have been needed to fully infuse a grown adult like Caleb or Mae. Maybe he used his farm animals? Lol!
@@freddybeer "Poor excuse?" I'm not REQUIRED to like the ending, just because you did. I said that the ending didn't work for me. I was speaking for myself. You're free to like whatever you like, but you don't get to lecture people on what they're supposed to like or enjoy. That's just arrogance.
35:15 John Parr "Naughty Naughty" from the man who wrote Gillette Razor's "Best a Man Can Get" makes Paxton's Severen "’ I hate it when they aint been shaved.” Brutally twice as Precious
And she was going out with James Cameron at the time which helped out a lot too. ❤ it seems like James Cameron was a little behind the scenes on this as well.
So I was thinking about this movie and something just occurred to me. Its about the cure plot mechanic, with Calebs father using a blood transfusion to cure first Caleb then Mae. I have a massive problem with this. You mean to tell me that the vampires are unaware that its possible? That a random veterinarian in the 1980 was the first human to try it, ever, in what we can assume to be centuries or even millenia of vampires existing? I don't buy it. Perhaps the vampires know but are just so against the idea they'd never consider it. But then that brings us to Homer. He HATES the fact he's forever trapped in an unaging child's body. You mean to tell me he wouldn't want to cure himself in order to age a few years and then allow himself to be turned again? So either nobody ever tried a cure, which is dumb, or the vampires know and are against it. I still like this movie but this will never un-occur to me.
