TheRetroCritic

One year post- Aliens , a good chunk of the cast of that movie agreed to star in then relative newcomer Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark : a vampire film with a difference. For one thing, the word "vampire" is never uttered during the movie. Near Dark follows a normal dude, played by a young Adrian Pasdar (yes, Nathan from Heroes ), who meets Jenny Wright's adorable Mae one night and what starts off as an innocent-enough impromptu date soon turns to disaster when it's revealed that not only is Mae a vampire but night is quickly turning to day. Caleb (Pasdar) is bitten and stumbles home in the burning daylight before finally being captured by Mae's vampire pals/family which happens to consist of a dangerously mischievous Bill Paxton, an intense Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein sporting a badass blonde poofy haircut and Joshua John Miller, an adult stuck in a child's body. As scary as they can be, they're also charming as hell and Caleb, despite not