Near Dark

Oklahoma night. A lone cricket. Boy meets girl; lips lock. The kiss damns him to a vagrant eternity in a family of nomadic bloodsuckers haunting the backroads. Bigelow's neon-noir vampire film plays like a Sam Peckinpah riff.

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Kathryn Bigelow directed Near Dark in 1987. See Kathryn Bigelow's full filmography, where to start with Kathryn Bigelow, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kathryn Bigelow.

Near Dark was released in 1987 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 94 minutes.