The journey for the perfect metaphor ends with Near Dark, a wonderfully directed film that subverts the expectations of the Western genre, but that also signals that the "Others" are vile, bloodthirsty creatures whose influence can only be overcome by blood transfusion.
Read the summary of the essay, "Vampires, Indians, and the Queer Fantastic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark" from The Glorious and the Grotesque
IDMB Episode 104 - Double Indemnity
IDMB Episode 103 - The Apartment
IDMB Episode 102 - Introduction to Billy Wilder (featuring Me, Jim Rohner!)
IDMB Episode 101 - In the Mouth of Madness
IDMB Episode 100 - Escape from New York
IDMB Episode 99 - Assault on Precinct 13
IDMB Episode 98 - Introduction to John Carpenter (featuring Reed Lackey of The Fear of God)
IDMB Episode 97 - The Phantom of the Opera 1925 & 1943 Double Feature
IDMB Episode 96 - Dracula's Daughter (1936) & The Invisible Man (1933) Double Feature
IDMB Episode 95 - Dracula (1931) & The Mummy (1932) Double Feature
IDMB Episode 94 - Introduction to Universal Monsters (featuring Gavin Mevius of the Midtown Comics Podcast)
IDMB Episode 93 - In the Cut
IDMB Episode 92 - Bound
IDMB Episode 91 - The Hitch-Hiker
IDMB Episode 90 - Introduction to Film Noir (featuring Kristen Sales of salesonfilm.tumblr.com)
IDMB Episode 89 - Almodovar Recap with Daniel Walber
IDMB Episode 88 - Mamet and Faith-Based Films Recap with Tyler Smith
IDMB Episode 87 - SK Revenge/New French Extremity Recap with Tim Buel
Update on IDMB Episode 87
IDMB Episode 86 - Dante/Weir Recap with David Bax
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