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 196 - Black Christmas (1974)
IDMB Episode 195 - Intro to Canuxploitation (featuring David Bax of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 194 - The Endless
IDMB Episode 193 - Resolution
IDMB Episode 192 - Spring
IDMB Episode 191 - Introduction to Benson & Moorhead (featuring The Pod and the Pendulum)
IDMB Episode 190 - Lone Star
IDMB Episode 189 - Eight Men Out
IDMB Episode 188 - The Brother From Another Planet
IDMB Episode 187 - Introduction to John Sayles (featuring James McCormick)
IDMB Episode 186 - Man With a Movie Camera
IDMB Episode 185 - Mother
IDMB Episode 184 - Battleship Potemkin
IDMB Episode 183 - Introduction to Soviet Silent Films (featuring David Bax)
IDMB Episode 182 - The Rhythm Section
IDMB Episode 181 - I Think We're Alone Now
IDMB Episode 181 - I Think We're Alone Now
IDMB Episode 180 - The Skeleton Twins
IDMB Episode 179 - Meadowland
IDMB Episode 178 - Introduction to Reed Morano (featuring Sean Meehan)
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