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 157 - Two Evil Eyes
IDMB Episode 156 - Monkey Shines
IDMB Episode 155 - Season of the Witch
IDMB Episode 154 - Introduction to George Romero (featuring Allie Kroeper of Bit Lip: A Teen Movie Podcast)
IDMB Favorites - Introduction to Universal Classic Monsters
IDMB Favorites - Introduction to Andrea Arnold
IDMB Favorites - Introduction to Film-Noir
IDMB Favorites - Introduction to Guillermo del Toro
IDMB Episode 153 - The Freshman
IDMB Episode 152 - Safety Last!
IDMB Episode 151 - Girl Shy
IDMB Episode 150 - Introduction to Harold Lloyd (featuring Tyler Smith of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 149 - The Tree of Life
IDMB Episode 148 - The Thin Red Line
IDMB Episode 147 - Badlands
IDMB Episode 146 - Introduction to Terrence Malick (featuring Andrew DeSelm)
IDMB Episode 145 - Trapped in Paradise
IDMB Episode 144 - 3 Godfathers
IDMB Episode 143 - Millions
IDMB Episode 142 - Offbeat Christmas Films (featuring Alonso Duralde of Linoleum Knife)
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