1987 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Adrian Pasdar Jenny Wright Lance Henriksen Bill Paxton Jenette Goldstein Tim Thomerson Joshua John Miller Marcie Leeds James Le Gros Troy Evans Roger Aaron Brown Thomas Wagner S.A. Griffin Paul M. Lane Neith Hunter Theresa Randle Don Pugsley Billy Beck Leo Geter Kenny Call Ed Corbett Bill Cross Robert Winley Jan King Danny Kopel Bob Terhune William T. Lane Gary Littlejohn Eddie Mulder Show All…
Michael Ohrling Jono Kouzouyan Richard Crompton Khan Griffith Chuck Colwell Hugh McCallum Lou Weinert
Carey Loftin Mike H. McGaughy Bob Ivy Jim Wilkey Jerry Wills Eddie Mulder Everett Creach Bob Terhune Mickey Alzola Paul M. Lane Michael Raden Stevie Myers Billy Yarborough Lee Poppie William T. Lane Larry Bartels Mike Johnson Kristen Suzanne Raden
Joan Rowe Jerry Trent David Lewis Yewdall Richard D. Rogers R.J. Palmer F. Hudson Miller John Wilkinson Grover B. Helsley Don Summer Kelly Tartan Ted Goodspeed Holly Davis Lee Chaloukian
惡夜之吻, Quando Chega a Escuridão, Blisko ciemnosci, Pimeyden läheisyys, Il buio si avvicina, Cuando cae la oscuridad, Αγρια Νύχτα, Aux frontières de l'aube, Near Dark - Die Nacht hat ihren Preis, Natten har sitt pris, Почти стемнело, Depois do Anoitecer, На смрачаване, Los viajeros de la noche, Сумрак, Na prahu temnot, Djævelens Datter, Άγρια Νύχτα, קרוב לחשיכה, Alkonytájt, ニア・ダーク/月夜の出来事, 죽음의 키스, Blisko ciemności, Karanlık Bastığında, 血尸夜
I don’t buy the central romance of this movie at all, but I DO buy the coolness of Bill Paxton, who sells it so hard he’s on the poster despite being neither the central protagonist or antagonist!! He’s good! So is the bar scene and the shoot out! The movie fun!
Shoutout to Lance Henrickson for rocking the most evil rattail in movie history
The night has its price. Southern gothic neon outlaw vampires—100% my thing... a very specific moody nocturnal jam with a cast to die for, a legendary bar scene to die for, and a Tangerine Dream score to die for. As far as 1987 vampire movies go, The Lost Boys is cool and all, but this one of my all timers that could slip into my top 4 at any given moment—basically what I’m saying is I’d die for this movie.
serious question of the day:
why the hell didn't Tangerine Dream just score
every film that came out in the 70s and 80s?
"I'm afraid"
"Don't be. It's just the sun."
Listen to the stars, but carefully because there's a price for the night. Bigelow (and co-screenwriter Eric Red) does such a great job of turning euro-romanticism into americana, it remains deeply moving even if it is a nasty horror-western hybrid about meeting your new girlfriend's deranged hillbilly family.
76
Kathryn Bigelow bursts out of the screen from the start with a solo debut of pulse-pounding authenticity and gracious romance. Its beauty is mainly mined from the familial dynamics interacting with location: how country roads seem even darker due to the presence of a lone street light, how (nearly) empty bars become ripe for slaughter, how the 'National Anthem sign-off' on television signals an ironic twist of fate. The band of vampires carry their own selective light, and so does Bigelow, rebelling against American traditions yet fitting into its larger mythos of perverted expansion. Tangerine Dream hums it all to sleep like a erotic, existential lullaby and Bill Paxton (RIP) cackles into the nether.
Excellent movie! Early movie of academy award winning director Kathryn Bigelow. Winning the award for The Hurt Locker. Ex wife of James Cameron. The best part of the movie is Bill Paxton’s role. It’s finger licking good. lol The movie also stars Lance Henriksen. White trash vampires. This movie is a must see. I first saw it when it first came out and it still holds up many years later! You can check it out on Shudder.
I love the way this movie's paced, where you start off with what feels like a cold open of a soulful drifter vampire dropping a Norm MacDonald amount of obvious hints that she's a vampire to an unsuspecting rube. But the whole movie's the cold open. It just keeps going slowly forward like you're in the dream of somebody who went to bed horny and scared. Even the bar fight scene moves on a dream rhythm, underscored by Fever rather than any of the million more raucous needle drops you'd expect for a scene like that. Even at their most alive and wild, these people are very sick.
I laughed really hard when the little kid exploded. I knew the sun was bad for them but I didn't know it was that bad.
Caleb is a country boy who meets the ever so sexy Mae one night while out with his mates. They click instantly but something is wrong. Mae is a vampire and she has infected Caleb with a extra-kinky goodnight kiss. Caleb is adjusting to life as a vampire while dealing with Mae's dad and his bloodthirsty crazy vampire pack in Kathryn Bigelow's vampire road-trip action-packed adventure. Caleb's cowboy hat. Mae likes ice cream. Stars in the sky. Mr. Ed's stepson. Tug-a-rope. Near-dawn kissy kissy. Vampires don't like sunlight. RV snatch-n-grab. Hudson, Bishop, and Vasquez without the Aliens. Nut grab. Grand Theft Auto. Johnny Law. Vampire blood suck. Killer instinct. Hitchhiking. Daddy Tim Thomerson. Barroom beatdown. Extreme flirtation. The way Bill…
Killing you would be easy, they'd rather terrify you...forever.
“Can I have a bite?”
I love every single thing about this stylish vampire on-the-road neo-western from its Tangerine Dream soundtrack, to its lovestruck boy falls for mysterious girl love story, that infamous bar scene massacre and the biker gang family dynamic—plus it’s just so damn fun and edgy!
Has there ever been anyone more cute as Jenny Wright’s Mae or anyone as deliciously sexy as over-the-top Bill Paxton’s Severen? I really don’t think so.
This film oozes that vampiric sex appeal and I simply can not get enough of it. Is it too much to say that I crave this film like a vampire craves that pulsating vein. Maybe… …
