Review – Near Dark

I brought a handful of misconceptions into this movie. First, I thought it came out around ten years earlier than it did. Second, with all the cast members who were also in Terminator 2 and/or Aliens, I thought maybe this was a James Cameron production (but no, refreshingly enough it was directed by a woman, Kathryn Bigelow). I also came in with the assumption that as a vampire movie it would most likely stink. Sure, it had a strong flavor of The Lost Boys, which also came out in 1987. Character motivations were sometimes hazy, and the “vampire rules” seemed inconsistent, particularly in regard to how much sunlight they could or couldn’t tolerate. But the story stayed interesting throughout and occasionally even bordered on clever. I’m still not a big bloodsucker fan, but if one has to make a vampire movie then it might as well be something like this. Mildly amusing