Introduction
Ever since The Hurt Locker, so many film-friends always follow up the conversation with "yeah, but have you seen Point Break or Near Dark, because they are great films too!". Unfortunatly, prior to watching Near Dark I had not seen any Kathyrn Bigelow films, except The Hurt Locker. I know this was vampires and I could tell it was very eighties, but - it turns out - as the cult-favourite that it is, it actually has alot more interesting depth to it than the tag "eighties vampire film" leads you to believe ...
A New Take on a Specific Genre ...
As a vampire film, you could easily assume certain specific features: Gothic fairytale, vampires that turn into bats, Transylvania, etc. Clearly, Bigelow and Eric Red simply threw out the rule book and took the one timeless facet to the vampire genre - they live forever and they feed off the blood of others. These two simple aspects to the vampire genre have multiple layers - the literal feeding-off from society, the