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 67 - Woodlawn
IDMB Episode 66 - God's Not Dead
IDMB Episode 65 - Intro to Faith Films (featuring Tyler Smith of More Than One Lesson)
IDMB Episode 64 - 25th Hour
IDMB Oscars 2016 Episode
IDMB Episode 63 - Malcolm X
IDMB Episode 62 - Do the Right Thing
IDMB Episode 61 - Introduction to Spike Lee (featuring Rudie Obias of Mental Floss)
IDMB Episode 60 - Modern Times
IDMB Episode 59 - The Kid
IDMB Episode 58 - The Tramp
IDMB Episode 57 - Introduction to Charlie Chaplin (featuring Charles Epting of Silent Film Quarterly)
IDMB 2015 Year In Review
IDMB Episode 56 - Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
IDMB Episode 55 - A Christmas Carol (1951)
IDMB Episode 54 - It's a Wonderful Life
IDMB Episode 53 - Introduction to Classic Christmas Films (featuring Alonso Duralde of The Linoleum Knife Podcast)
IDMB Episode 52 - Sweetie
IDMB Episode 51 - Bright Star
IDMB Episode 50 - The Piano
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