can anybody explain to me why people think near dark is good

[joe shindle]

I really hated this movie. It wasn't good accidentally. It was soooo  bad that it wasn't good at all. It was the most boring movie I've ever seen. It did put me to sleep at parts so maybe I slept through the good stuff. Even though it was really mainsream, I think the best vampire movie ever was Lost Boys, although any movie the greatest actor ever, Corey haim, in it is good. Fright Night was good

[Drezzy]

Fright Night WAS good...so was Lost Boys. Hmm...Near Dark has Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen in it, right? 2 of my favorite actors...I should check it out...

I always thought that they should have made a movie of RL Stine's Vampire Kiss, because it truly is Stine's best work to date. His Goosebumps series got incredibly dumb after "Don't Go Into The Basement," resorting to cheap thrills and the sort. Blech...child horror is pitiful, even in a B-Movie sense...

[Chadzilla]

Well I liked Fright Night, but I hated The Lost Boys with a passion (hip and funny and shot at Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk - well one out of three doesn't win anything from me).

I thought Near Dark was relatively stylish and the idea that vampires would live in small, drifting clans of poor white trash seemed a better idea than the homo-erotic Peter Pan pretensions of Joel (Batman & Robin) Schumacher's teen cream flick (sorry, I really hated TLB).

I loved Bar Scene, especially how Bill Paxton tormented everyone then Boss Hog Vampire Lance casually slit the throat of the bar waitress, let pour into his glass, and then gulped it down before swaggering to his feet and telling every human in the bar to relax, they were going to be dead in few more minutes anyway.

Hey, and TIM THOMERSON's in it.

I also like the fact that the drifters in Near Dark could use the faces of those prancing pretty boys from TLB as toilet paper and not even blink, or break out in a sweat.

Beside, TLB is a rancid piece of s**t (then again I hated it and you didn't - even my best friend liked it, which made me pass out when he told me).

I'll enjoy my movie and you enjoy yours, humbly agreeing to disagree.

That's my word, for what little it's worth.

[Jay O'Connor]

Anyone else think Lance Henriksen is a good challenge to Tim Thomerson as "King of the B Movies"?  He seems to be in *everything*

His only disgrace is he actually had a good movie and a decent TV series... :)

[joe shindle]

I respect all opinions. Maybe I should watch Near Dark again, this time when it is not 3 am.

[Mofo Rising]

NEAR DARK is probably my favorite vampire movie (outside of FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, which is an exception).  I don't know, I just really dug the s**tkicking vampire vibe.  None of the pretentious foofooness of other films, just a couple of badass bloodsuckers going around the country killing people.  I also think the performances are excellent all around.  The one exception is that stupid kid.  I've hated him in everything I've ever seen him in.

There's also a great rendtion of "Fever" by the Cramps.

Anybody notice a shift in vampire films recently?  No more of this brooding creature of the night, more and more movies are making them monsters with more of a gang mentality.  A plus in my book, but I can't help what wonder what the next incarnation is going to be.  Tecno-vampires?

[Vincent Price]

techno-vampires exist in movies
just watch Blade with Wesley Snipes (very mainstream even though it was awefull). I hated the music (misfits rule! :D:D:D)

[Chris1]

I loved Near Dark when I saw it on HBO one time early in the morning. It's way better than Frrom Dusk Til Dawn that movie whent way to fast killing everybody to know  them and like them. As for Blade I'll stick to the  Blade comic books.  Near Dark was fantastic horror movie it had a great cast Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Jenette Goldstein the stars of Aliens and Tim( Jack Deth) Thomerson in it too. I also like the song they used John Parr's  "Naughty Naughty". when they came threw the bar door.