Near Dark (aka Too Straight to Vampire) with Erica Henderson

Published: March 11, 2022, 10:08 a.m.

Scare Level: Scary
Trigger Warnings: Trauma, Gore, PTSD, body horror, and gaslighting

This neo-Western from Kathryn Bigelow is, ostensibly, about a cowboy who gets bitten by vampire-drifters and spends the rest of the movie failing to vampire correctly.

  • Director: Kathryn Bigelow
  • Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Reed
  • Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jeanette Goldstein, and Jenny Wright
  • IMDB says: "A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter."

Recommendations:

  • Erica- The Stuff
  • Emily- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
  • Ben - They Live
  • Jeremy - The Final Girls

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