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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 18

Cast Adrian Pasdar Bill Paxton Jenny Wright Eric Red

Directors Kathryn Bigelow

Screenwriters Kathryn Bigelow

Running Time 84 minutes

Near Dark
Impressive genre-twisting debut from Bigelow.

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Plot
A young man reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group.

Verdict
You can cite your Scream's as much as you like. The fact is that the resurgence of horror began a full ten years before Wes Craven started getting 'all clever' on us. It began on a dusty road, somewhere in Arizona, when a 36 year-old artist-turned-director twisted genre tradition on its head and proved to her more hirsute counterparts that she could frankly do this shit better. Or, when Kathryn Bigelow took on the big boys and won.


Reviewed by Mark Dinning

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