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 124 - Chimes at Midnight
IDMB Episode 123 - The Stranger
IDMB Episode 122 - Intro to Orson Welles (featuring Tyler Smith of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 121 - Starship Troopers
IDMB Episode 120 - Basic Instinct
IDMB Episode 119 - Katie Tippel
IDMB Episode 118 - Introduction to Paul Verhoeven (featuring Mat Bradley-Tschirgi of Sequelcast 2)
IDMB Episode 117 - Pieta
IDMB Episode 116 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring
IDMB Episode 115 - The Isle
IDMB Episode 114 - Introduction to Kim Ki-duk (featuring David Bax of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 113 - Day for Night
IDMB Episode 112 - Shoot the Piano Player
IDMB Episode 111 - The 400 Blows
IDMB Episode 110 - Introduction to Francois Truffaut (featuring Robert Hornak of More Than One Lesson)
IDMB Episode 109 - The Mirror
IDMB Episode 108 - Solaris
IDMB Episode 107 - Ivan's Childhood
IDMB Episode 106 - Introduction to Andrei Tarkovsky (featuring Doug McCambridge of Good Times, Great Movies)
IDMB Episode 105 - Ace in the Hole
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