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 177 - Dans Paris
IDMB Episode 176 - Rare Exports
IDMB Episode 175 - A Christmas Tale
IDMB Episode 174 - Foreign Language Christmas Films (featuring Alonso Duralde)
IDMB Episode 173 - Okja
IDMB Episode 172 - The Host
IDMB Episode 171 - Memories of Murder
IDMB Episode 170 - Introduction to Bong Joon-ho (featuring Jim Mickle!)
IDMB Episode 169 - Close-Up
IDMB Episode 168 - Certified Copy
IDMB Episode 167 - Like Someone In Love
IDMB Episode 166 - Introduction to Abbas Kiarostami (featuring filmmaker Benny Krown)
IDMB Episode 165 - Happy-Go-Lucky
IDMB Episode 164 - Secrets & Lies
IDMB Episode 163 - Naked
IDMB Episode 162 - Introduction to Mike Leigh (featuring Tyler Smith of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 161 - Tiny Furniture
IDMB Episode 160 - Medicine for Melancholy
IDMB Episode 159 - Funny Ha Ha
IDMB Episode 158 - Mumblecore Part 2 (featuring David Bax of Battleship Pretension)
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