Before Twilight and New Moon saga , before the vampires beautiful and no more damned before True Blood, The Vampire Diaries , Supernatural and TV company, there was her. Kathryne Bigelow. Before Blue Steel and Point Break there Near Dark (Darkness approaches ). It is 1987 and the young American director throws down a script to duet with Eric Red, who also wrote the cult horror The Hitcher (1986) and then behind the camera for the wonderful (and sadly forgotten) Cohen and Tate (1988, Italy in the past as Cohen and Tate ). The horror experiencing a particular period: Romero is in the process of melodramatic Monkey Shines, Carpenter is clinging to the anarchic telecrazia They Live, the new Cronenberg torn flesh fly and inseparable Jeremy Irons and Jeremy Irons, the gasps of our national terror cats Opera in the brain and crows. Thus the Bigelow has a different idea than usual for his first film set a classic vampire story starring young, beautiful and damned, in the hot sun of Oklahoma.
Caleb from the soul is a handsome rough and gentle at the same time: his best friend is a horse. One night he meets the charming Mae and does everything to seduce her, including giving her her neck. Without knowing that she is a vampire and is part of a crazy gang made up of a couple, Jesse (beautiful face wrinkled by Lance Henriksen) and Diamondback, a sadistic psychopath named Southern Severen (Bill Paxton is a very credible) and Homer, a man in the body of a child. Caleb does not want to kill to survive and satisfy their thirst for blood. He must do when kidnapped by five and forced to beat the dusty streets of the U.S. in search of the sacred nectar red. Only love can save his soul, traced the path of righteousness by the presence of the father and sister Sarah, traveling on his trail.
A rather banal plot, carried out with wrist superb narrative and dialogue peppered with some illuminating. The Bigelow declines in the men's classic story of impossible love, plunges the vacuum and the dark interior of the characters nell'afosa heat of Texas, memorable turns pages of great cinema when it evokes the first kiss of Caleb and Mae with a slow motion, and thrilling besieging the circle of freaks in a motel with the wisdom of a western of yesteryear. Sexual feelings and voracity of the stomach are held in check, there are other links to be preserved. Instincts which inflate fears and obsessions, among temptations melodramatic action and explosions overflowing. An extraordinary visual talent, surrounded by lights typically eighties and focuses on the worst-marginalized, different social status and ethical choice. Near Dark is also this: the body of the film that changes, that needs love, blood and violence for its sole purpose. Survive.
Be blinded by the night. The feel? It will be great.
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