 Welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies before we get started. What are we drinking at it today? We're drinking Antonio Bay American wheat ale if you want the recipe click the link up there today We're gonna bring to you 1987's near dark Co-written and directed by Catherine Bigelow and she did the Hurt Locker and She did point break the late Bill Paxton is in this Lance Hendrickson is in this He was in pumpkin head and a hard target just to name a couple Adrienne Pastar is in this I use in top gun Carlitos way Joshua John Miller was in this as well. He was in Halloween 3 Dan Chalice's son. Yeah, he's also in Death Warrant, which is another Vandam movie the Sandman Yeah Nothing man. Just sort of pop you're going to drink said about The near dark starts off with the main character Caleb typical country cowboy type guys all in the denim Yeah cowboy hat on driving to pickup truck. His friend has some giant like super on the verge of being absurd thousand gallon hats Caleb runs into this character may instant sparks, right? Tone of this scene is set perfectly by the music Which is by tangerine dream mays very obsessed with the the night and the stars and listen to the night You may realize is how late it is. I gotta get home now I'll take you home, but you got to kiss me first may goes in and bites him on the neck Jumps out of the truck and takes off. He's wondering what the hell's happened He's trying to get truck to start and it won't start besides to walk home And he starts all smoldering and smoking and turning all black and then silly daddy Is that Caleb? What's wrong with him? He looks sick looks more than sick as RV barrels around the corner door opens Take Caleb into the RV and takes off We can introduce to the characters in the RV and it's Severin is Hostile off the bat rip your face off Jesse says he's one of us now We'll give him a week Caleb needs to kill and feed to be able to survive because he is getting ill then there's a cool montage Where it shows where each member of of the clan goes out and gets their prey at night the little kid Homer You fakes that he's hurt on the bike and someone comes up and you know May and Caleb pretend to be hitchhiking get picked up by this truck driver ever trying to check before come on Baby give it to me, baby May is giving Caleb the eye the whole time go for the kill may actually ends up killing the truck driver herself Let's Caleb feet off of her that scene is just so Symbolic where they're in this big like field with these oil drills Penetrating the ground With the music that awesome music is just such an epic cool shot. It sort of converges on to This honky-tonk country bar to give Caleb the opportunity to have a good kill himself Yeah, he still hasn't made his first kill exactly. This is like his last chance They barge right in trying to get this guy riled up and he goes to punch him and he moves Caleb in the way Yeah punches Caleb gets all mad. He just fucking ribs him one. He goes flying into the into the pool table Jesse's all putting a charm on this waitress and they come up from behind her with a straight razor and slitter throat They collect her blood in a in a beer mug the bartender Meanwhile is loaded a shotgun and ends up shooting Caleb right through the chest doesn't die though Yeah, he's fine. May has sort of kept this kid for Caleb. Come on. That was your time Now's your time. He jumps out the window and he takes off like anybody would do Caleb chases him down and he grabs him and he's getting ready to bite him He just can't do it and he just lets him go. He's James LaGrosse from Fantasm 2 they hole up in this hotel the cops come and they start shooting the shit out of this hotel sunlight comes through and burns them right Caleb kind of takes it upon himself wraps himself in this in this blanket Runs out to the van that they have looks like it's his real skin. That's burning That's when they show the hand grasp the door looks like a bear hand on fire and drives it straight through Into the hotel room and he rescues everybody totally redeemed himself From here they kind of make their way to another hotel room Homer sees this little girl You want to come back to the room there and watch some TV you get this kind of sense that He's lonely the Homer brings the little girl back to their hotel room just to watch TV just for some companionship So it seems yeah, so it seems you really don't know what his intention is Caleb comes back to the room there And he notices hey, that's my sister right and they kind of embrace Caleb's dad breaks through into the into the hotel room and he's got a gun There's a bit of a standoff there and that's where we're gonna stop Yeah Caleb has to choose between his old family or his new family Yeah, the first thing that I'll mention about near dark is that it is a vampire movie That does not use the term vampire once. Yeah, which is a whole movie. There's enough there We don't need to say vampire the guy is burning in the sun. They say he needs to kill to live Yeah, nowhere in this movie. Do you see fangs either it completely turns the whole vampire theme on its head? Yeah, they don't sleep in coffins. They travel During the daytime most vampire movies. It'd be cool to be a vampire that life would be so cool But in this movie like nah, this seems pretty shitty like guys have a real kind of vagabond Awful Existence it doesn't glorify the vampire lifestyle whatsoever. No not one bit sometimes you feel bad It's like oh, yeah, look at these guys. They look like shit, you know feel kind of bad Then they fucking go on a rampage and just destroy people completely And then you don't feel bad you hate them the music by tangerine dream is so fitting for this one Yeah, it works so well whenever there's a movie with tangerine dream music, you know It's gonna be good right the film work is amazing in this movie Which we kind of touched upon with the oil derricks and all that right The use of light at night time was really cool, right? Yeah, the way they light a lot of the scenes is neat and also the shootout In the motel there during the day when the lights coming in There's totally aspects that could be bored from interview with the vampire and yeah like lots of aspects like Caleb is totally like the character of Louie who kind of refuses to kill and Lestat is very much kind of almost like Severin heartless heartless brash Kill someone in a heartbeat to feed just getting a kick out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Homer's a lot like Claudia yeah, you know just the kid right to yearns for her her own kind But not necessarily vampire. Yeah, just her own age. Yeah, just somebody else to be with Bill Paxton's it He's in Terminator one guys a couple cans short of a six pack Lance Hendrickson's in it He's in Terminator one Jeanette Goldstein is in it. She's in Terminator two. She plays John Connor stepmom Do it your mother tells you not my mother Robert Wingley plays the biker guy in your dark and the biker guy in Terminator two the Oh There was one that stole it Terminator kind of connection with near-dark is neat Yeah, I never realized that until you mention that is like holy shit. Do you write? Yeah, great 80s vampire movie Like it reeks of the 80s soundtrack by tangerine dream is super 80s the way the movie is shot stylistically it's so 80s Severin's all punk Yeah, they're all kind of punky looking a little bit. Yeah, yeah So if you're a fan of any 80s vampire movie This movie is kind of not so much as adored as movies like Lost boys you have to see near-dark if you like lost boys feel like from dust all dawn Oh, yeah interviewer the vampire. Yeah, you totally check out near-dark if you haven't seen it It's it's a vampire 80s masterpiece It's a whole yeah Melange of things which which takes a vampire or concept and just goes Lips it on his back and there's a neat different take. Yeah